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- Title
The Breastfeeding Case Study: A Model for Educating Nursing Students.
- Authors
Spatz, Diane L.
- Abstract
The article describes a model for nurse educators to meet students' educational needs related to breastfeeding. Health care providers' lack of knowledge, training, and education pertaining to breastfeeding has been well documented in the literature. Since 1995, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has offered a course entitled "A Case Study in Breastfeeding and Human Lactation." It is one of several case study courses offered to junior and senior nursing students. All students receive a basic lecture about breastfeeding as part of their undergraduate obstetrical nursing course. However, students who plan to work in the fields of obstetrics, pediatrics, or family nursing have the opportunity to focus their knowledge development in the area of breastfeeding. Through classroom and clinical experiences, students are able to examine in-depth topics such as the anatomy and physiology of lactation, the role of culture and support in breastfeeding, essential aspects of establishing and maintaining lactation, and the nurse's role in counseling breastfeeding families.
- Subjects
PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; BREASTFEEDING; NURSING students; UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania. School of Nursing; LACTATION; TRAINING
- Publication
Journal of Nursing Education, 2005, Vol 44, Issue 9, p432
- ISSN
0148-4834
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3928/01484834-20050901-09