S1B - Early term infant care: Hospital utilization and feeding practices

Monday, June 16, 2014 : 4:35 PM

Title: S1B - Early term infant care: Hospital utilization and feeding practices

Monterrey (Disney Coronado Springs)
Debra Craighead, PhD, RN , *, Calhoun, LA
Learning Objectives:
  1. The learner will appreciate the health vulnerabilities unique to the early term infant.
  2. The learner will understand results of research completed in 2013 that describe hospital utilization and breastfeeding of early term infants born in the U.S. in 2009.
  3. The learner will identify three things a nurse can do to support early term infant health.
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.