Breastfeeding SOS! Practical strategies to improve breastfeeding promotion and support in your busy practice

Durham, NC US
February 28, 2020

The activity will be geared towards medical providers in outpatient pediatric primary care and include attending physicians, nurse practitioners, residents, and nurses. Our target audience will be faculty and staff at Duke Children’s Primary Care, the main teaching practice for Duke Children’s, as well as affiliated community pediatric practices. We have implemented a novel tool to capture real‐time milk type feeding data in our electronic medical record. Our initial results suggest our exclusive breastfeeding rates are much lower than national and North Carolina averages. The current need in our practice that has been identified is hesitancy by providers to encourage breastfeeding and/or address breastfeeding issues out of concern that they will create more guilt or animosity in their patients. The goal of the activity will be to provide expertise on this common concern, including a review of the latest evidence to support breastfeeding as well as practical approaches for how to deal with these hesitations in a busy primary care practice.

Target Audience

Medical providers in outpatient pediatric primary care including: attending physicians, nurse practitioners, residents, and nurses.

Learning Objectives

1. State two reasons why exclusive breastfeeding in the first few weeks of life improves health outcomes.

2. Describe how to incorporate breastfeeding support into routine well child visits.

3. Describe one technique to help a breastfeeding baby latch.

4. Name one change in your clinic setting that will increase support for breastfeeding families.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 3.50 ANCC
  • 3.50 Attendance
Registration Opens: 
02/28/2020
Registration Expires: 
02/27/2021
Activity Starts: 
02/28/2020 - 8:00am EST
Activity Ends: 
02/28/2020 - 12:00pm EST
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Duke Diet and Fitness Center
501 Douglas Street
Durham, NC 27705
United States

The Duke Diet and Fitness Center is located at 501 Douglas Street, Durham, (just past Hock Plaza II) on your right. The gravel parking lot is to be used for all guest meetings and events. To access the gravel parking lot, please pass the front entrance of the building and turn right where you can enter the gravel section of the parking lot. The paved spaces are for DFC clients and Duke patients, many of whom are disabled or otherwise have difficulty walking.

 

Please use the attached Parking Pass to be displayed on your dashboard.

 

As you enter the main entrance of the Diet and Fitness Center, please check-in at the front desk and the receptionist will direct you to the Lecture Room, where the event is being held.

Available Credit

  • 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 3.50 ANCC
  • 3.50 Attendance
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