Saving Tiny Lives with Human Milk- Employing BFHI in the Neonatal Special Care Units – eCourse
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Cost
$10.00 non-members
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Includes access to the eCourse for 1 year
Overview
This 1-hour e-course reviews how the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative principles can be applied in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Objectives
- Discuss the need for application of BFHI principles in neonatal wards/NICUs
- Appraise possible challenges to human milk and breastfeeding in neonatal wards/NICUs
- Describe at least 3 components of the BFHI as they apply to neonatal wards/NICUs
Topic Outline
- Evidence regarding the importance of human milk for preterm and ill infants
- Breastfeeding rates at NICU discharge
- The effect of BFHI certification on breastfeeding rates in the NICU
- Challenges of providing human milk and breastfeeding in the NICU
- Components of the 2020 WHO BFHI document
- Quality improvement regarding human milk and breastfeeding in the NICU
Accreditation
CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed Saving Tiny Lives with Human Milk- Employing BFHI in the Neonatal Special Care Units and deemed it acceptable for up to 1 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CERPs: This recorded course has been allocated 1 (L) Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) by IBLCE. CERPs approval # CLT117-04.
IABLE has been accepted by International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) as a CERP Provider for the listed Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) programme. Determination of CERPs eligibility or CERPs Provider status does not imply IBLCE®’s endorsement or assessment of education quality. INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAMINERS®, IBLCE®, INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT®, and IBCLC® are registered marks of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.
Nursing Credits: All state boards for nursing licensure approve of educational offerings that are approved by the American Nursing Credentialling Center (ANCC)
According to ANCC Certification, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal. https://www.nursingworld.org/certification/faqs/
Speaker
Nancy Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP
After 37 years as an attending neonatologist and 18 years as a medical director of lactation services, Nancy retired from clinical practice in 2019. She graduated from medical school and did her training in Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she was chief resident. She did her fellowships in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and ECMO at UCSD Medical Center in San Diego. Nancy is board-certified in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and has been an IBCLC since 1988.
Nancy is currently education coordinator and treasurer for the San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition, which she co-founded in 1994. She established the first Donor Milk Depot at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns over 25 years ago. She was awarded the Golden Wave Award by the California Breastfeeding Coalition in 2014 and the WIC Breastfeeding Champion Award in 2017. She received AAP Special Achievement Awards in 1997 & 2021 for her breastfeeding education and promotion efforts. Nancy has also been active on the Boards of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Conflicts of Interest
None