Cost
$10.00 non-members
$9.00 members (must be logged in to receive the discount)
Includes access to the eCourse until completion or for 1 year
Overview
This 1-hour course reviews office strategies for prenatal support for breastfeeding and common breastfeeding concerns that can be managed by office triage staff, during office visits, and/or during well-child visits.
Objectives
- • Explain why primary care offices need to support breastfeeding
- • Name a few ways that breastfeeding can be promoted during pregnancy
- • Describe common breastfeeding concerns that can be addressed by office nurses, medical assistants, and other support staff
- • Identify ways that office nurses or other triage staff can support breastfeeding dyads on the phone or through electronic messaging
- • Explain ways that breastfeeding can be supported during well-child visits
- • Identify steps in creating a breastfeeding-supportive office environment
Topic Outline
- • Professional breastfeeding recommendations
- • Unites States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations on Supporting Breastfeeding
- • The American Academy of Pediatrics Baby Friendly Office Recommendations
- • Prenatal support strategies
- • Breastfeeding concerns that require outpatient visits
- • Common breastfeeding concerns that can be managed by phone or messaging
- • Anatomy of breast growth and secretory activation early postpartum
- • Management of engorgement
- • Initial management of concerns regarding low milk production
- • Basic management of sore nipple, mastitis, and clogged ducts
About the Instructor
Anne Eglash MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to family medicine, she has been practicing breastfeeding and lactation medicine since 1994.
Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine and is a past associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.
Dr. Eglash is founder and president of The Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE), as well as a cofounder, inaugural president, and immediate past-president of the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.
Accreditation
CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed Primary Care Office Support 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.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
CERPs: This course has been allocated 1 (L) CERP recognized by IBLCE. Long Term Provider #117-04.
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/
Conflicts of Interest
None
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