
Welcome to the training on Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Prenatal and Postnatal Practices that Support Breastfeeding provided by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). This training includes three tutorials that can be taken individually or in sequence. We urge participants to begin with the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding Overview tutorial before taking the other modules.
This module does not currently offer CE credit.
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding consists of three tutorials. You are encouraged to enroll in the complete package of tutorials:
- Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding Overview
- Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Birth Practices that Support Breastfeeding
- Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Prenatal and Postnatal Practices that Support Breastfeeding
Goal
The goal of this module is to equip Texas Health Steps providers and others to protect, support, and promote breastfeeding in accordance with the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and Texas Ten Steps Program.
Target Audience
Texas Health Steps providers, nurses, and other health-care providers who work at hospitals or birth facilities or have direct contact with pregnant women or new mothers.
Specific Learning Objectives
After completing the activities of this module, you will be able to:
- Determine how to promote patient-centered communication about breastfeeding.
- Given a case study, develop a collaborative health-care plan.
- Summarize the benefits and risks of different infant feeding methods.
- Employ recommendations to support breastfeeding after a mother returns to the workplace.
Please note this module expires on 11/16/2018.
This module was released on 11/16/2015.
Accreditation Statement
Continuing Nursing Education
The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service has awarded contact hour(s) of Continuing Nursing Education.
Social Workers
The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service under sponsor number CS3065 has been approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners to offer continuing education contact hours to social workers. The approved status of The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service expires annually on December 31. The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service has awarded contact hour(s) of Continuing Social Work Education.
Certified Health Education Specialists
Sponsored by The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to total entry-level Category I contact education contact hours.
Certified Community Health Worker
The Texas Department of State Health Services, Promotor(a)/Community Health Worker Training and Certification Program has certified this course for contact hour(s) of continuing education for Certified Community Health Workers and Community Health Worker Instructors.
Certificate of Attendance
The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service has designated hour(s) for attendance.
Disclosures
One of the requirements of continuing education is disclosure of the following information to the learner:
- Notice of requirements for successful completion of continuing education activity. To receive continuing education credit the learner must successfully complete the following activities:
- Create a Texas Health Steps account.
- Complete on-line registration process.
- Thoroughly read the content of the module.
- Complete the on-line examination.
- Complete the evaluation.
- Commercial Support.
The THSTEPS Web-based Continuing Education Series has received no commercial support. - Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships.
The THSTEPS Continuing Education Planning Committee and the authors of these modules have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. - Non-Endorsement Statement.
Accredited status does not imply endorsement of any commercial products or services by the Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service; Texas Medical Association; or American Nurse Credentialing Center. - Off-Label Use.
Using a disclosure review process, the THSTEPS Continuing Education Planning Committee has examined documents and has concluded that the authors of these modules have not included content that discusses off-label use (use of products for a purpose other than that for which they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration).
The following are policies and definitions of terms related to continuing education disclosure:
The intent of disclosure is to allow Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Continuing Education Service the opportunity to resolve any potential conflicts of interest to assure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its Continuing Education activities.
All faculty, planners, speakers and authors of Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Continuing Education Service sponsored activities are expected to disclose to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Continuing Education Service any relevant financial, relationships with any commercial or personal interest that produces health care goods or services concerned with the content of an educational presentation. Faculty, planners, speakers and authors must also disclose where there are any other potentially biasing relationships of a professional or personal nature.
Glossary of Terms
Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect Continuing Education content about products or services of a commercial interest with which she/he has a financial relationship or where there are any other potentially biasing relationships of a professional or personal nature.
Commercial Interest: Any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
Financial Relationships: Those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities for which remuneration is received or expected. Relevant financial relationships would include those within the past 12 months of the person involved in the activity and a spouse or partner. Relevant financial relationships of your spouse or partner are those of which you are aware at the time of this disclosure.
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- American Academy of Pediatrics Policy: Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk, 2012
- Baby-Friendly USA
- Baby-Friendly USA Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Breastfeeding Resources
- Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care – 2011 Texas results / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The U.S. Surgeon's General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding - 2011
- Healthy People 2020 Mother, Infant, and Child Objectives
- Infant Risk Center, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Texas Mother Friendly Program
- Texas Ten Step Program
- Star Achiever Training Modules
- Star Achiever Training Toolkit
- Texas Ten Step Scorecard
- World Health Organization / Global Health Targets 2025 Breastfeeding Policy Brief, 2013
- World Health Organization / Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, 2003
- World Health Organization / The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes
- U.S. Breastfeeding Committee
- Report on Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda, 2001