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The required documentation outlined below regarding benefits of
breastfeeding/hazards of formula is necessary and beneficial to moms and families,
*breastfeeding this time around or not*, ... and is the most likely item to
keep everyone out of court in those rare instances when that action might be
later threatened (just one of the reasons it's all so complicated)
Having the mom _Sign_ those and related types of documents, and retain a
hard or soft copy of each, helps the mom know/feel/internalize that she has
been informed and educated, and she, by signing, is acknowledging and
taking responsibility for now being educated and informed, and for her feeding
choices and decisions, which short and long term have great potential to
effect the health of her baby and of herself.
Let Joint Commission be impressed (in this way and other ways) that astute
and insightful health care providers went above and beyond minimal
expectations.
Debbie Tobin
RN, BSN, 20 yr IBCLC -> lapsed
Fairfax County, Virginia suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
In a message Amy writes:
Our hospital was unable to find anything written in the Joint Commission's
guidelines that specifically states that the mother must sign the
document. The only requirement was that the practitioner document the date/time
of the discussion w/ the mother in the mother's chart. Our Pediatric team
then makes note in the newborn's chart that they viewed documentation of
this discussion in the mother's chart.
Anyone else find otherwise?
Why must this be so complicated?>>>>
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