D1 - Innovative Approach To Skin-To-Skin Immediately After Birth and Perceived Barriers To Skin-To-Skin Throughout The Postpartum Stay

Title: D1 - Innovative Approach To Skin-To-Skin Immediately After Birth and Perceived Barriers To Skin-To-Skin Throughout The Postpartum Stay

Disciplines: Advanced Practice (AP), Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Discuss the biologic importance of skin-to-skin care throughout the postpartum period.
  2. Describe continuous quality improvement methods used to increase skin-to-skin care immediately after birth.
  3. Examine mothers’ and nurses’ attitudes toward and perceived barriers to skin-to-skin care during the postpartum hospital stay.
Submission Description:
Evidence strongly supports that initiating and maintaining skin-to-skin care (SSC) between mother and baby immediately after birth promotes newborn thermoregulation, glucose stability, bonding, and successful breastfeeding. Maintaining SSC throughout the hospital stay is also known to be beneficial to mothers and babies. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) was used to significantly improve initiation of SSC in the delivery room and mixed methods research explored nurses’ and mothers’ perceived barriers to SSC throughout the postpartum stay.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013: 9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Presidential A (Gaylord Opryland)
Moderator:
Elizabeth Kester, RN, CLC, CCE
Presenting Authors:
Tanya N. Carmichael, MSN, RNC-OB and Debi Page Ferrarello, MSN, MSHE, RN, IBCLC
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