Evidence‐Based Practice

Abstract

I thoroughly enjoyed the Clinical Issues series on evidence-based practice (September/October 2002 JOGNN). As a maternity nursing teacher, I especially enjoyed the article on the three infant care interventions (“Three Infant Care Interventions: Reconsidering the Evidence,” by Jennifer M. Medves, RN, PhD). Even though I have been teaching for many years, write and edit textbooks, and study evidence-based practice, I learned several new things. For example, I have never questioned the practice of instilling medication into the eyes of babies born by cesarean when membranes are intact, and I didn’t know that breastfed babies need vitamin K, whereas bottle-fed babies receive adequate amounts of vitamin K in the formula.