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Breastfeeding Triage Tool: Tips on how to properly breastfeed your infant |
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The Breastfeeding Triage Tool includes fact sheets that detail steps to properly breastfeed your baby from infancy to 3 years old.
The Breastfeeding Triage Tool was authored by the following:
Sandra Jolley, PhD, ARNP, IBCLC
Ellen Phillips-Angeles, MS, CHES
Ilana Chertok, PhD, RN, IBCLC
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This tool has proven invaluable to thousands of health care professionals and others who help mothers manage breastfeeding problems. A new section "Breastfeeding Initiation" was added to assist with breastfeeding right after birth. There are revisions throughout the text, plus an enhanced and updated references and index. Chapter markers have been added to pages to enhance identification of sections and for ease in cross-referencing. This pocket-sized triage tool is designed to help health care professionals make decisions about breastfeeding problems while on the telephone with clients. It helps you identify the problem, offer solutions and determine when patients need to be seen. The Triage Tool is divided into 9 Chapters, starting with "General Information" about breastfeeding. Patient education fact sheets are included for you to copy for your clients. A telephone consultation form, overview of breast pumps, index and glossary make this an invaluable reference you will want to carry with you everywhere.
Breastfeeding fact sheets -- Download and print (PDF) |
The Breastfeeding Fact Sheets are two-page educational handouts on specific topics. They translate the technical information from the Breastfeeding Triage Tool into more user-friendly language for your clients/patients. Minimal words are used and the reading level is set at grade 7.
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