Maternal-child nursing is a specialty focused on the care of women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth and the care of their newborn children. This specialty includes obstetric nursing, perinatal nursing and pediatric nursing.

• Nursing Pocket Cards, including well woman exam and amenorrhea

• Guideline Summaries, including breast cancer and ovarian cancer

• Blog posts, with infographics, mnemonics, tips, and more

• Journals

  • Advances in Neonatal Care

  • Infants & Young Children

  • Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing

  • Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing

  • MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

• Articles and nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) activities

• Headlines and news stories

• Society partners

• The electronic health record (EHR) has a vast source of patient data that can be used to retrospectively review patient needs and nurse staffing gaps that can serve as a basis for prospective planning for nurse staffing. In this quality improvement project, data from the EHR were used to evaluate real-time and prospective nurse staffing needs and to be consistent with the nurse staffing guidelines from the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses. Reports from the EHR provided quantitative data that supported a budgetary increase in nurse staffing and a more flexible nurse staffing scheduling system to meet the needs of the patients.

• Nurse and human resource leaders at Boston Children's Hospital, a tertiary care, 454-bed pediatric academic medical center, developed, implemented, and evaluated strategies to increase racial and ethnic diversity in recruitment and hiring of the nursing workforce. Significant increases in racial and ethnic diversity recruitment and hiring were achieved. These strategies can be helpful for nurses and other health care leaders to advance health equity through the creation of a racially and ethnically diverse nursing workforce.