title: Making the literature palatable at the bedside: Reference poster promotes oral feeding best practice.
abstract: Neonatal nurses often draw upon prior experiences and intuition to feed neonates. Such experience and skill vary from nurse to nurse and may not be based on recent research, nor tailored to each neonate's feeding skill. An evidence-based neonatal oral feeding guideline was produced to improve oral feeding practices among nurses and parents. The implementation was initially less than ideal, resulting in poor compliance. A bedside reference poster was designed to serve as a visual succinct reminder of the oral feeding guideline.
authors.affiliation: Postpartum Community Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. karen.lasby@albertahealthservices.ca
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lasby
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dressler-Mund
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002170:Canada; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D057175:Posters as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic