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#MCN's mission: provide most timely, relevant info to nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, and pediatric specialties. #MCNAmerJMaternChildNurs
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Racial gap widened in deaths among US moms around the time of childbirth. Maternal mortality among Black women was more than 3 times the rate of White women in in the United States in 2023 per CDC EStat report published today.
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ACOG Will Host Contraceptive Guidance for Ob/Gyns Amid CDC Website Purge
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Trust in public health information is trending downward. KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: January 2025 - Findings
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Relationship between nurse staffing during labor and cesarean birth rates in US hospitals. Better nurse staffing associated with lower cesarean birth rates and higher VBAC rates. Nursing Outlook 2025
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Nurse staffing is worse in hospitals that predominately serve Black patients. While not a surprise that safety net hospitals have worse staffing compared to other hospitals, likely d/t poor reimbursement from Medicaid, it's a reminder of the inequity.
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Urinary Tract Infections: An Age-Old Problem that Demands New Solutions0 Obstetrics & Gynecology
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More bad news about the growing crisis in access to maternity care in rural areas. Lack of access increases risk of preventable adverse outcomes.
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RT @CDC_DRH: New data is available! CDC released 2021 data from its Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System. Visit
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Labor induction has continued to increase in the United States. Women having their first live birth have higher rates of labor induction (41.2%) compared to multiparous women (28%) based on data from 2023 (CDC & NCHS, 2024).
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RT @greenjrnl: Last chance!!! Don't miss your chance to apply for the O&G and SASGOG Editorial Fellowship. More information available at ht…
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CMS issues new hospital maternal health, safety standards Let's hope "Obstetric services must be "well organized" and in line with nationally recognized standards of healthcare" means nurse staffing as per AWHONN 2022 nurse staffing standards.
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Information about our MCN editorial fellowship for 2025.
Attention early career maternity, midwifery, pediatric, and neonatal nurse scholars: we’re accepting applications for the 2025 MCN Editorial Fellowship. Enhance success in getting your work published, learn about all aspects of journal publication. See MCN website for details.
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Please vote! Vote for Reproductive Self-determination and the Broadest Scope of Reproductive Health Care Vote like the lives of all those who need reproductive health care depend on it, because they do. From the editors: @KateRSimpson @AnnieJRohan
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RT @MCNonline: Announcing: MCN Editorial Fellowship for 2025 We’re offering our 6th 12-mo editorial fellowship on the journal publishing…
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Call to action: Blueprint for change in acute and critical care nursing - Nursing Outlook Measuring the effects of nursing care and nursing practice in the hospital setting. Long overdue.
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If interested, please send your CV and a 250-word statement about why you would like to be an MCN editorial fellow and your objectives for the fellowship to KRSimpson@prodigy.net Editors select the fellows in early December. Deadline for submission: 11/12/2024
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