• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  Considering that the AAP has just updated its recommendations to extend breastfeeding through the first two years of life, it is important for pharmacists to understand the role that they can play as members of the breastfeeding support team. Pharmacists provide unique and necessary services that can help women be able to achieve two years of breastfeeding.
  
  

  Handouts

  • Slide Document :   22273H04_2pp.pdf Download

  • Slide Document :   22273H04_6pp.pdf Download

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacist

  Identify appropriate resources for HCPs to determine lactation safety of medications

  Identify ways pharmacists can be members of the breastfeeding support team

  Recognize the anatomy and physiology of breast milk production to better understand drug transfer to breast milk

  Identify appropriate resources for HCPs to recommend to nursing mothers

  Recognize the benefits to breastfeeding for both mother and baby, at both the individual and societal levels

  Recognize the current recommendations for breastfeeding by AAP and WHO

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Knowledge

  CE Broker

  20-1043216

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacist 0798-0000-22-273-H04-P
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Brandy  Foster, PharmD Clinical Preceptor, University of Georgia

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