Amanda
Malm, RN, BSN
Allina Health
Staff Nurse, Mother Baby Center
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Interdisciplinary Team on Evidence-Based Practice and Improving Nurse Confidence in Labor Support (#8)
Background: The Interprofessional Evidence-based Clinical Scholar Program (IECSP) is a partnership between St. Catherine University and various clinical sites. Each partnership tasks interprofessional teams to define a clinical problem, appraise evidence for their project, implement a clinical change, evaluate effectiveness of the intervention, and disseminate the practice change. For the 2018-2019 cycle, a team of two St. Catherine University nursing students and faculty from nutrition and interprofessional education partnered with Abbott Northwestern (ANW) nursing staff from the labor and…