Changing Breastfeeding Culture through Staff Training

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Changing Breastfeeding Culture through Staff Training

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Melissa A. Moreau, FNP , Pediatrics, Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, RI

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

Learning Objectives:
  • Discuss the use of simulation training in increasing nurse comfort level in counseling new parents.
  • Describe the benefits of peer to peer education and support in instituting practice change
  • Define a nurse driven interdepartmental task force formed to identify gaps and promote evidence based practices to support breastfeeding.

    • Submission Description:
    It is recognized amongst healthcare professionals that breastfeeding has numerous benefits to mother and infant. It is also known that implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding has positive impacts on short and long term breastfeeding rates. So why is changing a culture to support breastfeeding so challenging? Nurses must not only have knowledge but tools to set their knowledge into practice. This poster will display the education plan instituted to change culture in our institution.

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    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.