For those of you who work in Baby-Friendly hospitals, or hospitals on the Baby-Friendly pathway, you know that Step 2 – “Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding,” is a major part of the journey. On top of educating staff RNs, ancillary staff and providers, many hospitals are dependent on traveling nurses for staffing, and need to also get them oriented to all things “Baby-Friendly,” especially if they’ve never worked at a Baby-Friendly hospital before. The problem of course, is that the traveler needs to get up and running on the unit as soon as possible, and long hours of education or shadowing of lactation staff are simply not possible.
This is why my “sister-site,” www.LactationCollege.com has created a one-hour course for travelers with highlights of the Baby-Friendly hospital requirements:
Ten Tips on the Ten Steps: Baby-Friendly Tips for Travelers
Participants will learn the 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and the basic Baby-Friendly requirements. They will also earn 1-nursing CEU. The course is just $10 per student. Every participant who completes the course and passes a 12-question quiz, will receive a certificate of completion. It’s a quick way for your travelers to get “up-to-speed,” and for you to provide documentation that they have been educated along with the rest of your staff. It’s also a great breastfeeding refresher course for any RN working in the maternal-newborn setting!
Thank you for considering this course as a requirement for your traveling nurses. Your support of www.LactationCollege.com allows us to keep
Breastfeeding Buzz (https://breastfeeding.substack.com ) and
The Lactation College on Substack (https://thelactationcollege.substack.com)
free for all lactation learners. Please reach out to me if you have any questions or comments at mary@lactationcollege.com
Thanks, and Happy Learning!
Mary