Editorial – An interesting example of the impact of research: Back in the fall of 2001, when Janet Bryanton was taking Epi 1 from me, she was designing a randomized controlled trial comparing tub bathing and sponge bathing of newborns on a number of infant and maternal outcomes. We had a lot of fun in class with the study, as we would use it in our discussions of design issues. Peter Foley had a great idea that she could do a double blinded study if she put blind folds on the nurses and the babies. All joking aside, the study, conducted at the Prince County Hospital in 2002, has had a wide reaching impact on care of newborns and in the education of nursing students. Very briefly the results showed that tub bathing is a safer, gentler, and more pleasurable way to bath newborns. The study was published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing in 2004. Since that time Janet and her colleagues have had numerous requests from hospitals across North America for the tub bathing protocol. The study is also described in two nursing research textbooks. One text, just recently published, uses the full study as a chapter exemplar. The study has also been used to guide an international newborn skin care protocol published in 2007 by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. Janet also uses the study when teaching her students Nursing Research and Nursing of Childbearing Families. It is exciting to see a study conducted on PEI to have such wide reaching impacts. ... Ian Dohoo