An Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project to Implement Maternal/Infant Skin‐to‐Skin Contact During Cesarean Delivery
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Immediate skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her newborn has been associated with successful breastfeeding outcomes. One of the challenges nurses face in promoting skin-to-skin occurs in the operating room during a cesarean delivery. Utilizing an interprofessional approach for this quality improvement project, we successfully implemented skin-to-skin contact for all eligible mother/infant couplets after cesarean birth. Exclusive breastfeeding rates for these women increased as a result.
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Skin-to-skin cesarean births are the exception rather than the norm, and translating knowledge into routine practice for scheduled cesarean births has been challenging.
“Despite a push to increase skin-to-skin contact after cesarean birth (skin-to-skin cesarean birth),23–25 such births are the exception rather than the norm, since translating this knowledge into routine practice for scheduled cesarean births has been challenging.”
From Women’s experiences of skin-to-skin cesarean birth compared to standard cesarean birth: a qualitative study (2021) · cites this paper as [25]
The Project Background describes difficulty making skin-to-skin contact routine during cesarean delivery, and the Outcomes report that 43% of women undergoing cesarean delivery received it in the operating room after the first month of implementation. These findings support the implementation challenge, but the paper does not establish that skin-to-skin cesarean births are generally the exception rather than the norm or address scheduled cesarean births specifically. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Machold, C. A., O’Rinn, S. E., McKellin, W. H., Ballantyne, G., & Barrett, J. F. R. (2021) · CMAJ Open · doi:10.9778/cmajo.20200079 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
- Authors
- Brady, K., Bulpitt, D., & Chiarelli, C.
- Affiliations
- St. Vincent's Medical Center (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-07
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 488-496
- ISSN
- 0090-0311 (ISSN-L)
- 0884-2175
- PMC
- PMC4491370
- OpenAlex
- W1516738755
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Keywords
- skin-to-skin contact, cesarean section, immediate postpartum care, interprofessional collaboration, exclusive breastfeeding, breastfeeding outcomes, operating room nursing, quality improvement implementation
- MeSH terms
- Breast Feeding, Cesarean Section, Female, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Interprofessional Relations, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Object Attachment, Obstetric Nursing, Postnatal Care, Postoperative Period, Pregnancy, Time Factors, Touch, Nurse's Role, Quality Improvement
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