Bestfed Beginnings (PowerPoint)

January 8, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: Science, Health Science, Midwifery
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Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Through Bestfed Beginnings

Why Pursue Baby Friendly Certification? ✤ The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative is a global program to encourage and recognize hospitals that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding. ✤ Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates breastfeeding is optimal method of infant feeding ✤ Breastfeeding is single most powerful preventative modality to reduce risk of common causes of infant morbidity ✤ Breastfeeding creates significant savings in health care dollars ✤ Recognition as a Baby Friendly institution has national and international credibility and prestige

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Why Pursue Baby Friendly Certification? • Numerous professional organizations actively encourage programs for support and management of breastfeeding – AAP recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months of age, and continued breastfeeding with complementary foods up to one year – Who recommends breastfeeding up to two years of age and beyond Healthy People 2010 had a goal of 75% early postpartum breastfeeding. This goal is suggested to go to 85%

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How Did We Get To This Point • Best Fed Beginnings is a project of the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and in close partnership with BabyFriendly USA • Made aware grant offered to assist hospitals to pursue Baby Friendly designation • • 20,000 hospitals accredited world wide but only 200 hospitals accredited in USA • Team was quickly assembled to meet the grant application deadline • The grant was awarded now working towards 2014 accreditation

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Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative at St. Vincent Team includes: administrative leader department leader lactation staff midwife peds and OB providers nursing educator clinic leadership staff nurses mother advocate

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How Do We Achieve Baby Friendly Status?

NICHQ - Change managers •

Utilize proven techniques to achieve successful healthcare change Hospital accountable to implement the specific steps with help through regional learning sessions webinars ilab where stats shown group sharing

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The 10 Steps 1.Written infant feeding policy 2.Train health care staff in skills to implement policy 3.Inform pregnant women of benefits/management of breastfeeding 4.Skin to skin immediately following birth

5.Assist mothers with breastfeeding even when separated from infant 6.Exclusive breastfeeding except when medically necessary 7.Rooming-in 24 hours a day 8.All babies feeding on cue 9.No pacifiers or artificial nipples for breastfeeding infants 10.Refer mothers to breastfeeding support at discharge

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The 10 Steps

• Use the Guidelines and Evaluation for Baby Friendly Designation – Really 64 steps – Sounds simple but very difficult » Requires change in culture, attitude and work flow » Significant training for nurses and providers – Done in collaboration with Prevea OB Department

– Actual survey with 2 nurses over 2 days » Interview nurses and mothers, review records

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Training Tools

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In Pursuit of Baby Friendly Designation

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