EXACTLY!! If education for Baby-Friendly was put together in a modular fashion so that it could be consumed in snippets of down-time with nurses able to enter and leave the module, it would allow for the education to occur in a more cost-effective fashion. Cost is the hang-up!
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Subject: Cost of Baby-Friendly education
It is not the cost of providing the education itself - it is that
mandatory education must be paid as regular working hour rates. I do the education
for nothing - the cost to pay the nurses to attend is $40 /hr X 18 hrs X
600 RNs = $432,000!
Nancy
Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP
Neonatologist
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns
Medical Director, Sharp HealthCare Lactation Services
San Diego, CA
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