Prenatally Diagnosed Congenital Heart Disease Lactation Program
This class was designed because there is an increased volume of new nurses with limited cardiac lactation experience who have a need for education and understanding of the feeding and growing of cardiac neonates.
Target Audience
Registered Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, the learner will be able to:
- Identify regulations for using oral care with maternal breast milk in the neonatal/pediatric cardiac population
- Assemble and understand the use of the breast pump equipment
- Engage in understanding of the newly developed lactation program for mothers of neonates with congenital heart disease.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 Attendance