EBP Implementation: Skin-to-Skin Contact for Newborns - A Report

This report outlines the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) concerning skin-to-skin contact for newborns within local healthcare systems. It emphasizes understanding the healthcare system at the local level to ensure successful adoption of EBP, focusing on resource availability and system readiness. The project aims to reduce disease transmission to newborns through skin-to-skin care, which stabilizes the newborn and enables normal body functioning. The report identifies issues such as frequent interruptions during postpartum stays, which can impact breastfeeding efficiency, and suggests providing education to nurses to improve the implementation of skin-to-skin care practices. A specialized room has been created to separate mothers and children for specific periods, and the project has received support from a mentor, including access to resources and financial assistance.

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When planning an evidence-based practice implementation, it is vital that one should
consider understanding the healthcare system at the local level. By doing so, there will be
successful adoption of the EBP at the organization. For example, an organization should consider
what kind of resources will be available and is the healthcare facilities and systems ready to
implement the new projects. Focusing on local level healthcare facilities help identify and find
solutions to needs that will benefit the entire support. EBP help identifies problems to local
health services and uses the current clinical expertise which takes to account patients preferences
and values (Aarons et. al, 2011). My project which is about skin to skin contact in the newborns
and it is focused in helping reduce the transmission of diseases to the newborn in our local
healthcare services. Skin to skin care in newborn helps stabilize the newborn and enable normal
functioning of the body. In some of our local level healthcare facilities, the system lacks some
rules and regulation to control movements and interactions. During the postpartum stay, frequent
interruption is seen, and these may impact breastfeeding efficiency and the amount the baby is
given. Facilities should consider providing education to nurses (Crystal et. al, 2015). These will
enable them to understand and implement the information about skin to skin care and make it
into practice. At my local facility center, we have created a specialized room that separates the
rest from the mother and child for a particular period. My mentor is very supportive and
encouraging. He has helped me access the more local healthcare facilities and provided with
more resources that are needed to help me implement my project. He has also offered financial
help that will help cater to the budget of the project

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References
Aarons, G. A., Hurlburt, M., & Horwitz, S. M. (2011). Advancing a conceptual model of
evidence-based practice implementation in public service sectors. Administration and
Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 38(1), 4-23.
Crystal, S., Neese-Todd, S., Cantor, J., & Gilmer, T. (2015). Going to scale: dissemination and
implementation of EBPs across large publicly-funded health care systems - initiatives
targeting system-level change. Implementation Science, 10(S1).