Designing and implementing a parenting resource center for pregnant teens.
The Resource Center for Young Parents-To-Be is a longstanding and successful grant-funded project that was initiated as a response to an identified community need. Senior-level baccalaureate nursing students and their maternity-nursing instructors are responsible for staffing the resource center's weekly sessions, which take place at a public school site for pregnant adolescents. Childbirth educators interested in working with this population could assist in replicating this exemplary clinical project in order to provide prenatal education to this vulnerable and hard-to-reach group.
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Anne B
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ANNE B. BROUSSARD is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and certified nurse-midwife who serves as a professor and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) coordinator at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Nursing & Allied Health Professions. She received the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses' Award of Excellence in Community Service in 2006 for her work on the community service project described in this article . BRENDA S. BROUSSARD is a certified nurse-midwife, women's health nurse practitioner, and an instructor in the BSN program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Nursing & Allied Health Professions. She currently participates with her maternity-nursing students in the Resource Center for Young Parents-To-Be.
Broussard
Brenda S
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