Facilitating Skin‐to‐Skin Contact in the Operating Room After Cesarean Birth

We implemented an evidence‐based practice change to provide early skin‐to‐skin contact (SSC) in nonemergent, full‐term cesarean surgical births among low‐risk healthy women. There were three aims of this project: (1) To develop a protocol for health care professionals’ roles in providing SSC in the operating room; (2) To implement the protocol; and (3) To evaluate the process of implementation of the evidence‐based intervention. The “champion team” concept was crucial to the project's success.