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Show Improving Breastfeeding Training Among Post-Partum Nurses University of Utah College of Nursing Natalie Wong BACKGROUND • Breastfeeding is the most optimal method of feeding an infant (4) • Breastmilk provides essential nutrients to infants that formula cannot; these nutrients can protect against disease and death (4) • Many health professionals lack the confidence, clinical competence, knowledge, and practice towards breastfeeding; current practice is not evidence-based but is rather dependent on experience (2) • Rates of initiating and sustaining breastfeeding increases when nurses are properly trained (1) • Current breastfeeding training for all newly hired nurses within MNBC involves INTERVENTION INFORMATION IMPLEMENTATION INFORMATION When creating a successful breastfeeding program, This breastfeeding educational program will UNICEF/WHO's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) involve a 2-hour workshop conducted by recommends that health professionals should be lactation specialists in the unit and will outline enrolled in an education breastfeeding program the following topics: breast anatomy and followed by supervised clinical experience to ensure physiology of milk production, nutrition "staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and recommendations, benefits of breastfeeding, skills to support breastfeeding" (5). In accordance with common challenges, feeding techniques, best practices as outlined by BFHI, it is proposed that breastfeeding positions, and communication an evidence-based breastfeeding educational skills and teaching methods for breastfeeding. program be implemented for all nurses in MNBC prior Prior to the workshop, nurses will have access to shadowing a lactation specialist. to the informational pamphlet, Your Guide to Breastfeeding (3). Once nurses have participated in the workshop, they may shadowing a lactation specialist for a single schedule a shift with a lactation specialist to shift receive supervised clinical experience. RESOURCES PICOT QUESTION 1. In breastfeeding patients in the Maternal Newborn Care Unit (MNBC), how does providing consistent training attitudes and skills needed to work effectively with breastfeeding women: a systematic review. International Breastfeeding Journal, 12(6), 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-016-0097-2 2. Karimeh, A. N., Reem, A., & Fatima, H. A. (2019). The effect of a breastfeeding educational workshop on clinicans' knowledge, attitudes and practices. British Journal of Midwifery, 27(4), 242-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2019.27.4.242 3. Office on Women's Health. (2018). Your Guide to Breastfeeding. Retrieved March 29, 2020, from https://www.womenshealth.gov/files/documents/yourguide-to-breastfeeding.pdf 4. World Health Organization. (n.d.) Breastfeeding. Retrieved March 29, 2020, from https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/topics/child/nutrition/breas tfeeding/en/ 5. World Health Organization. (2017) Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services. Retrieved March 29, 2020, from https://www.who.int/elena/titles/full_recommendations/breastfeedingsupport/en/ of breastfeeding among floor nurses compared to current training and inconsistent knowledge of breastfeeding, affect confidence and satisfaction of breastfeeding among patients by the conclusion of their stay at the hospital? Gavine, A., MacGillivray, S., Renfrew, M. J., Siebelt, L,. Haggi, H,. McFadden, A. (2017). Education and training of healthcare staff in the knowledge, University of Utah College of Nursing |
