Pregnant patients who screen positive for substance use require specialized prenatal care coordination, yet many practices lack standardized protocols for substance use m [...]

Many different strategies have been used to overcome barriers to pain management. One such strategy is improving nurses’ knowledge through the Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) [...]

There is a growing national demand to demonstrate quality of care, efficacious clinical outcomes and evidence based practice. Enhanced by Center for Medicare/Medicaid S [...]

This quality improvement project created a trauma-informed birth plan template using an innovative application of the framework developed by the National Center for Traum [...]

This DNP project addressed the lack of a structured peer mentoring program for nurse-midwifery students despite strong student interest. Using a two-stage approach, focus [...]

Cesarean Birth (CB) has been consistently rising worldwide especially among women of advanced maternal age (AMA) group. The Robson 10-Group Classification System (TGCS) f [...]

Following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and ongoing challenges in sustaining rural health care, an environmental scan was conducted in Vernonia, [...]

Obstetrics is one of the oldest arts practiced by mankind as it is vitally concerned with the perpetuation of the race. To the modern mother, a pregnancy is far removed f [...]

This text chronicles the early implementation of western medicine from settlers coming across the United States who made their home and built their practices in Oregon be [...]