Allow me to brag a little.  I just completed a staff education
program on breastfeeding teaching.  I gave a pretest of 25 questions
and the scores ranged from 31% to 81%.  (It was admittedly
difficult.  A group of IBCLCs I had try it ranged from 80% to 91%.)
After the inservice, the test was given again with scores ranging
from 79% to 96%!  (That doesn't include everyone who took the
pretest-others will watch the video of the inservice and retake the
test.)  One score was 68% , but that person missed the first half of
teh inservice ant the questions she missed were the info covered
during that time.  Several questions that had less than 50% right
answers in the pretest were 100% right in the posttest.  I had to
talk fast and aqueeze a lot of information in 2 hours, but hopefully
we'll be hearing fewer complaints from patients about conflicting
information  This will be followed with a clinical competence
component where each nurse will work with one of the LCs and be
checked off on her patient teaching and techniques in helping babies
latch effectively.  Sometimes those dead horses we've been beating
can have a rebirth!

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