Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence - Softcover

Walker, Marsha

 
9781284091045: Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence
Softcover
ISBN 10: 128409104X ISBN 13: 9781284091045
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Awarded Third Place in the 2 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Maternal-Child Health Category!Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence, Fourth Edition is an essential and practical reference guide for clinicians. Using a research-based approach, it includes literature reviews while covering incidence, etiology, risk factors, prevention, prognosis and implications, interventions, expected outcomes, care plans, and clinical algorithms. With a focus on the practical application of evidence-based knowledge, this reference offers a problem-solving approach to help busy clinicians integrate the latest research into everyday clinical practice.Completely updated and revised, the Fourth Edition includes a new discussion of the vitally important newborn gut microbiome. In addition, it features new and more effective techniques for addressing breastfeeding barriers, new research, and the latest guidelines.

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About the Author

Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC. Marsha is a registered nurse and international board certified lactation consultant. She has been assisting breastfeeding families in hospital, clinic, and home settings since 1976. As such, she advocates for breastfeeding at the state and federal levels. She served as a vice president of the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) from 1990-1994 and in 1999 as president of ILCA. She is a previous board member of the US Lactation Consultant Association, Baby Friendly USA, the Massachusetts Lactation Consultant Association, and the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition. She serves as Associate Editor of Clinical Lactation and a board member of the National Lactation Consultant Alliance. Marsha is an international speaker, and an author of numerous publications including ones on the hazards of infant formula use, Code issues in the United States, and Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence, Fifth Edition.

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Publisher
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
128409104X
ISBN 13 
9781284091045
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
4
Number of pages
700