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Improving Breastfeeding Education Among Hospital Nurses, Kara R. Connelly
Improving Breastfeeding Education Among Hospital Nurses, Kara R. Connelly
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Breastfeeding is well-documented as the most beneficial method of infant feeding worldwide. There are numerous national initiatives present to improve breastfeeding outcomes. Despite knowledge and health care organization efforts, the recommendations of exclusive breastfeeding through six months of life with continued breastfeeding through one year of age are not being met. The purpose of this DNP project is to determine if a structured self-study educational program on breastfeeding recommendations, the 4th Edition of the Lactation Management Self-Study Modules created by Wellstart International™, provided to hospital nurses on a maternity unit in Central, New York with a Level One nursery, …
The Effects Of A Digital Educational Intervention On Undergraduate Nursing Students' Attitudes, Knowledge And Self-Efficacy With Female Genital Cutting, Najla Barnawi
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Background: Due to increasing transmigration, care of women with female genital cutting FGC has become a national and global public health and human rights issue. The US is one of the Western countries that have a large number of women who underwent or are at risk to undergo FGC. Based on the US Population Reference Bureau (PRB) (2013), there were more than 507,000 females with different migration status who were subjected to some form of FGC. Around 55% of these women were during their reproductive cycle (15 to 49 years old). Caring for immigrant women with FGC, especially those who …