Womb to Tomb Nursing
June 22nd, 2007 | You're Being (Web) Paged
Nursing has moved towards evidence based practice, and it’s not just for nurse researchers. The University of Minnesota has a great site that explains what evidence based practice means, how to evaluate and incorporate it into practice, and has a multitude of links for further information. Bedside nurses, new and old, need to remain on top of the latest research and findings that drive our nursing care. One of the best resources for finding the latest evidence based information is through professional nursing organizations. Call me a geek, but I have joined several national nursing organizations and read their publications from cover to cover.
I’m going to take a womb to tomb approach over the next few weeks in posting links to nursing organizations and other nursing resources. So let us begin with the babes…
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The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is a national nursing organization that promotes the health of women and newborns. They publish two journals: Nursing for Women’s Health (formerly AWHONN Lifelines) and the Journal of of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN). AWHONN is 22,000 members strong and holds an annual convention.
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The National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) strives to improve the life of newborns and their families. They have a subdivision within their association called The National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners that has special resources for NP’s. The official journal of NANN is Advances in Neonatal Care.
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The Academy of Neonatal Nurses has a user friendly website for NICU, nursery, and mother-baby nurses. Their journal, Neonatal Network, includes free CEU’s.
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Both neonatal and obstetric nurses alike need to be knowledgeable in breastfeeding. The Journal of Human Lactation is an excellent resource for nurses. This is the official publication of the International Lactation Consultant Association.
Journals not associated with an organization include MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing and The Journal of Neonatal and Perinatal Nursing.
Labor Nurse writes from New England where she is a Registered Nurse and has worked in obstetrics since 2000. She is also a nurse midwifery student who hopes to survive and graduate in 2008 and writes a popular and irreverent blog at The Life and Times of a Labor Nurse which has morphed into a Rebirth. And yes, she is still that cute today!
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Hello,
Please forgive the dopeyness of sending you my own article, but I have piece in the San Francisco Chronicle tomorrow that struck me as something that you, or perhaps your blog readers, would be interested in. In short, it’s a profile of life in the NICU, and also of the life of a NICU nurse, on UCSF’s legendary 15th floor. It’s a job that’s often misunderstood, I think — hopefully this will shed at least a little light for the lay person.
Here’s the piece:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/07/02/onthejob.DTL
Thanks — and thanks for the terrific site.
Chris Colin
For info about my book, “What Really Happened to the Class of ‘93,” visit http://www.chriscolin.com.