I need Lactneters help.  I am searching for a patient survey sheet to give to NICU mom's to evaluate the assistance they received in the unit in regards to encouraging and supporting breastfeeding.  I am unable to locate the one I had from a previous hospital.  

I am in hopes that by supplying moms and families with the opportunity to evaluate their support and teaching that our hospital will support a Lactation Consultant for our NICU, if only on a part-time basis.

Without going into a lot of details there is surprisingly limited support in our unit.  This had started to change as I started working with more moms.  At the time I was an RN working the unit.  Since then I obtained my IBCLC and had hoped that things would improve.  They didn't, if anything they have regressed.  I recently spoke with our new nurse manager and had limited success.  I suggested a survey or questionnaire for the moms as a way of validating my observations and complaints by families. By providing documented/ Quality Assurance evaluation things might change.   Of course now I am unable to locate the questionnaire.  Does anyone on Lactnet have such a tool?

If anyone has one I would greatly appreciate it if you would send it to my Email address direct and as soon as possible.  The NICU is a very "high need area" for moms.  We really need our own LC in the unit.  But money is always an insure.  Prove it and it might come :-)

Thank you in advance for any help you might give or web sites I might check.  I wanted to contact my support group first.

Ann Slaughter



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