21st Annual Mother's Special Gift Breastfeeding Conference

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Target Audience

Lactation consultants, nurses, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, physicians, and other healthcare professionals who assess and assist the mother-baby breastfeeding dyad.

Description

Nurses, Lactation Consultants, Nurse Practitioners, and Certified Nurse Midwives are invited to join us at our annual Mother's Special Gift Breastfeeding Conference.
Experts in the field of lactation and breastfeeding will discuss best practices in the care of nursing mothers and their babies.

Topics and Speakers

Become a Breastfeeding Cheerleader! Counseling Skills for the 10 Steps
Gigi Lawless, BSN, RN, IBCLC, RLC, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute

Breastfeeding During Environmental Emergencies
Aunchalee Palmquist, PhD, MA, IBCLC, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute

Ethical and Legal Issues in Breastfeeding
Gigi Lawless, BSN, RN, IBCLC, RLC, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute

Breakout Sessions
Breakout A: Complications Affecting Breastfeeding
Gigi Lawless, BSN, RN, IBCLC, RLC
Breakout B: Back to Basics with Breastfeeding Skills
Lynda Desmarais, RN, BSN, IBCLC & Karen Ingle, RN, BSN, IBCLC

Closing Keynote: Driving the Changes You Want to See
Pam Spivey, MSN, APRN, CCNS, RN-BC
Spivey Consulting LLC


Location
CaroMont Regional Medical Center, Auditorium
2525 Court Drive, Gastonia, NC
For directions, click click HERE

Credit
6.0 Contact Hours/ 0.6 CEUs

6.0 Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Contact Hours
Charlotte AHEC Nursing Education is a provider of continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This program has been approved by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) for 5.0 L-CERPs, 1 E-CERP, 1 R-CERP; IBLCE Verification Number C1991142.

Objectives

• Discuss comprehensive care for advanced issues related to assisting moms and babies to breastfeed.
• Discuss non-confrontational ways to promote breastfeeding.
• Describe assistance practices that help promote and maintain breastfeeding during environmental emergencies
• Discuss ethical and Legal issues to consider when working with breastfeeding mothers and babies: 1. Breastfeeding in public 2. Clinical competencies 3. Code of Professional Conduct (CPC) 4. Principles of confidentiality 5. WHO code –advocacy and policy
• Explain treatment modalities for tongue-tied babies
• Outline the follow-up nursing care needed after tongue-tie treatment
• Describe maternal complications that can impact the success of breastfeeding, including their care management practices for each complication
• Identify basic patient care and education needed for nurses to support the breastfeeding mother and baby dyad.
• Describe ways to influence others toward positive breastfeeding culture and practices

Contact

Sophia Moore-Dennis

Sessions