The breastfeeding case study: a model for educating nursing students.
Due to several national initiatives and recommendations from professional organizations, more women may be encouraged to breastfeed. However, they will not achieve improvement in breastfeeding duration if their health care providers lack knowledge about breastfeeding or are not easily accessible in some areas. Nurses who work with families with children are responsible for a great deal of patient education and can affect women's decisions to initiate and continue breastfeeding. Therefore, it is critical that nurse educators find a way to address this knowledge gap, especially in already overburdened curricula. This article describes a successful model for doing so.
Spatz
Diane L
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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 420 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096, USA. spatz@nursing.upenn.edu
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