title: Designing an intervention: therapeutic showering in labor.
abstract: Therapeutic showering is a nonpharmacologic comfort measure used during labor but is not tested empirically. The purpose of this article was to report the systematic development of therapeutic showering during labor using best available evidence so that nurses in practice and research can further test and refine this nursing intervention.
authors.affiliation: Bronson School of Nursing, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008, USA. mary.stark@wmich.edu
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Stark
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States