This course is INACTIVE
School
Health and Human Services
Division
Health Careers
Department
Health Careers
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Allied Health
Course Number
123
Course Title
Lactation Consultant Practicum Pathway 2
Credit Hours
7.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
300.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
300.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
S/U
Pre-requisites
Permission of instructor
Catalog Course Description
Focuses on the clinical application of lactation concepts to breastfeeding mothers. Select experiences in health care facilities enable students to assess, develop, implement and evaluate the care of the breastfeeding dyad. The course requires 300 hours in the health care setting and is designed for those with prior lactation teaching experience.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Core Course Topics
- Professionalism in healthcare
- Written and oral communication in healthcare
- Birthing Center Work flow
- Legal/Ethic/Culture in healthcare
- World Health Organization (WHO) Code
- Breastfeeding positions/equipment
- Identifying breastfeeding complications
- Manual expression
- LATCH Score
- Alternative feeding methods
- Early feeding expectations
- Feeding plans
- Milk storage/donor milk
- Safe formula preparation
- Medications used during labor and delivery
- Galactagogues
- Maternal diet
- Breast pumps
- Term and late pre-term breastfeeding infants
- Teenage breastfeeding mother
- Stressors affecting the breastfeeding mother
- Breastfeeding supplementation
- Effects of maternal and infant conditions on breastfeeding
- Professional role of International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Care Nursery (SCN)
Core Course Learning Objectives (Separated)
- Demonstrate professionalism in the healthcare setting.
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication including documentation in the electronic medical record (EMR).
- Apply ethical and legal principles and culturally competent care in the healthcare setting.
- Discuss the Birthing Center Workflow.
- Discuss WHO code related to the Code of Breastmilk substitutes.
- Demonstrate proper breastfeeding positions and use of breastfeeding equipment.
- Demonstrate the proper method for manual expression.
- Use LATCH score to assess breastfeeding dyad.
- Discuss why an alternative feeding method is chosen.
- Demonstrate proper use of alternative feeding methods.
- Describe early feeding expectations of the newborn.
- Develop and implement a feeding plan for breastfeeding dyad.
- Develop and implement a feeding plan for breastfeeding mothers with and without complications.
- Describe the proper storage of breastmilk and donor milk.
- Describe safe formula preparation.
- Identify commonly used medications during labor and delivery and those medications that can affect milk production.
- Identify galactagogues.
- Identify the components of the maternal breastfeeding diet.
- Explain reasons for breastpump use and the steps necessary for effective pumping.
- Develop a feeding plan for the late pre-term infant.
- Establish rapport and communicate with the teen breastfeeding mom.
- Identify psychological and social stressors in the breastfeeding mother.
- Identify feelings, emotions, sensations or personal experience with breastfeeding that staff might experience that may affect interactions with families.
- List indications for supplementation and the differences between expressed breast milk and formula as a supplement.
- Define slow infant weight gain and its relation to breastfeeding.
- Describe the effects of jaundice on breastfeeding.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of Academic Achievement
Clinical evaluations, clinical attendance, student documentation, etc. will be used to assess student academic achievement and psychomotor skills.
Texts
Determined by program faculty
Outcomes
Satisfies Wellness Requirement
No
Approval Dates
Effective Term
Fall 2019