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A6C - Beyond Baby Friendly: Implementation of the Power Hour!

Monday, June 15, 2015 : 11:15 AM

Title: A6C - Beyond Baby Friendly: Implementation of the Power Hour!

Room 101 (Long Beach Convention Center)
Becky Gams, MS, RN, CNP , Nursing Practice, Research, and Innovation, University of Minnesota Health, Minneapolis, MN
Roxanne Rana Flynn, RN, BSN, IBCLC , University of Minnesota Health, Victoria, MN

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • Describe the 3 benefits of early breast pumping after birth
  • List the steps in change management that were used to create a shared vision, establish the work team, develop, develop and implement the initiative, and perform ongoing evaluation.
  • Explain how the Power Hour initiative has improved consistency in initiation of early breast pumping for mothers who are separated from their newborns.

    • Submission Description:
    Imagine that you have been dreaming of holding your baby for the past couple of months but after giving birth, you are separated from your newborn who has been taken to the NICU. Your delivery nurse recognizes that you are missing your time to have skin to skin contact with your baby and initiate early breastfeeding. Within an hour if giving birth, she has you pumping your breasts so you have colostrum to bring your baby when you reunited. What is known as the Golden Hour has become your Power Hour.

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