Learners will understand the concept of cultural humility and how to provide culturally congruent breastfeeding care.
Learner Objectives
- Describe the effect of cultural diversity on breastfeeding attitudes and practices and encourage variations to practice, if appropriate, that effectively promote and support breastfeeding in different cultures.
- Demonstrate counseling skills that enable lactating parents to overcome barriers to breastfeeding.
- Demonstrate an ability to engage in trauma-informed care.
- Counsel lactating patients postpartum.
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Essential Activities
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Give a presentation focused on defining culture, cultural humility and how cultural and community factors may impact breastfeeding.
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Start a journal club among learners. Suggested journal articles are available at this link and a sample journal club worksheet is available at this link.
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Have learners complete the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence short course on Conscious & Unconscious Bias in Health Care.
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Discuss the case studies “Excessive newborn weight loss” and “Same-sex breastfeeding parents” as a small group, or use as a take home assignment.
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Review the Women’s Health Today article, Why Trauma-Informed Care Needs to be Our Standard, on trauma-informed care related to breastfeeding.
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Review the Center for Social Inclusion’s Removing Barriers to Breastfeeding: A Structural Race Analysis of First Food Report. Practice effectively communicating with patients regarding personal breastfeeding goals and addressing barriers to breastfeeding through role play activities found in the Personal Breastfeeding Goals presentation.
Resources:
- Pregnant at Work: Helping Patients Seek Breastfeeding Accommodations
- Ohio First Steps Initiatives Flip Chart: English & Spanish
- Synchronous direct-to-consumer telehealth (HRSA)
- Cultural Sensitivity for Better Breastfeeding Outcomes (National Institute for Children’s Health Quality)
- Using Videos to Teach Medical Learners how to Address Common Breastfeeding Problems
- Motivational Interviewing Infographic (psychedpodcast.org)
- Brief video: What is Motivational Interviewing?
- Inter-professional Education (IPE): Breastfeeding Human Medicine Course
- Breastfeeding Telephone Triage and Advice, 4th Edition [Paperback]
Learners can take this optional quiz to gauge their understanding of topics covered in this curriculum module.
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