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Assisting Mothers To Successfully Breast Feed Their Babies, Annabelle Moore
Assisting Mothers To Successfully Breast Feed Their Babies, Annabelle Moore
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
This experimental study tested the effect of a teaching program on success of a group of mothers desiring to breast feed their babies. It was hypothesized that mothers receiving specific instructions on the physiology of lactation and the proper sucking technique would have greater success than mothers not so instructed.
To be categorized as successful the mothers had to have an adequate supply of milk and had to express satisfaction with breast feeding. Criteria for adequacy of milk supply consisted of weight gain of the infant within accepted norms without use of supplementary formula.
Twenty breast feeding mothers who delivered …
A Plan For Inservice Education In A Small Maternity Unit, Ruth Wipperman
A Plan For Inservice Education In A Small Maternity Unit, Ruth Wipperman
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The purpose of thin study was to develop a plan for inservice education for the graduate nurse staff in a small maternity unit that would encourage optimum nursing care.
A questionnaire was prepared and given to those nurses who had been employed in the maternity unit during the sixteen month period prior to the date of mailing the questionnaire.
The responses from the nurses showed that they would welcome an inservice education plan that would provide an improved orientation program and meetings for discussion to foster self improvement and better patient care. Critical incidents reported by the nurses showed the …