Highlights
- •Health care education programs lack sufficient content on breastfeeding.
- •HUG Your Baby teaches breastfeeding by focusing on mother-infant communication.
- •HUG Your Baby improved NP students’ knowledge and confidence in breastfeeding.
- •HUG Your Baby is an effective teaching tool for nurse practitioner programs.
Abstract
Breastfeeding is known to have numerous benefits for both mothers and infants. Although
the United States reports high breastfeeding initiation rates after birth, the rates
of continuation are quite low at both 6 and 12 months. Breastfeeding support in the
health care setting is shown to improve the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding,
yet clinicians do not receive adequate training to provide this support to patients
and families. By adding the HUG (Help, Understanding, Guidance) Your Baby virtual
breastfeeding education program into our women’s health and pediatric nurse practitioner
courses, students showed significant gains in knowledge and confidence of breastfeeding
support regardless of past personal or professional experience.
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Biography
Malinda S. Teague, DNP, CPNP-AC/PC, is an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, NC, and can be contacted at [email protected]
Biography
Kathryn J. Trotter, DNP, CNM, FNP, CHSE, is an associate professor at Duke University School of Nursing.
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Published online: October 31, 2022
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In compliance with standard ethical guidelines, the authors report no relationships with business or industry that would pose a conflict of interest.
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