Abstract
Abstract This article describes how a health care team changed practice by implementing delayed cord clamping as standard practice. After administration of a survey to assess clinicians’ knowledge and to discover barriers to this proposed practice change, members of a multidisciplinary committee used the results to create a guideline for delayed cord clamping and a plan for successful implementation. Integral to embedding and sustaining changes in practice was development of the Delivery Room Brief and Debrief Tool and inclusion of the process into nursing guidelines and the electronic health record. Through the use of these tools and teamwork, delayed cord clamping was implemented as standardized practice across six hospitals within this health care system.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 489-498 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Nursing for Women's Health |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2017 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- change management
- delayed cord clamping
- implementation
- protocol
- shared vision