BFHI eLearning modules
The eModules have been designed to save facilities the time, resources and effort of organising in-house professional development, which can often be an arduous task.
Supporting the breastfeeding mother in the neonatal period is a series of eight online education modules developed by the Australian Breastfeeding Association.
Comprising 8 hours of breastfeeding education, this eLearning module series offers hospitals and health facilities seeking BFHI accreditation or reaccreditation a means to fulfil the compulsory staff education requirements.
What is included in the BFHI staff education pack?
- 8 hours of high-quality, evidence-based eLearning modules.
- Individual accounts provided for each staff member, allowing them to complete the modules at any time, from any device.
- Reporting on module completion rates provided to the facility on a regular or as-needed basis
- Ability to integrate organisational branding onto eModule platform (additional fees apply)
Summary of eLearning modules
Counselling skills:
- Counselling skills for breastfeeding support
- Breastfeeding education for pregnant women
Establishing breastfeeding:
- Supporting a mother to initiate breastfeeding
- Assessing a breastfeed
- Supporting a mother to hand express
Breastfeeding challenges:
- Establishing and increasing milk supply
- Counselling a mother with breast and nipple challenges
- Challenges to feeding at the breast and alternative methods of feeding
Overview of BFHI competencies in each module
1. Use listening skills when counselling a mother
2. Use skills for building a mother’s confidence and giving support
4. Counsel a mother to make an informed and appropriate decision about infant feeding suitable to her circumstances
3. Counsel a pregnant woman about breastfeeding
5. Help a mother to recognise when her baby is ready to initiate breastfeeding while in skin-to-skin contact after birth
6. Support a mother to position herself and her baby for breastfeeding
7. Support a mother to attach her baby to the breast, encouraging baby-led attachment
8. Assess a breastfeed; including teaching a mother how to monitor milk transfer
9. Explain to a mother about feeding cues and the optimal pattern of breastfeeding
11. Explain to a mother how to know if her baby is getting enough milk
10. Using hands-off techniques, assist a mother to express her breastmilk
11. Explain to a mother how to know if her baby is getting enough milk
12. Counsel a mother who thinks she does not have enough milk
13. Counsel a mother with an unsettled baby
16. Counsel a mother who has flat or inverted nipples
17. Counsel a mother with engorged breasts
18. Counsel a mother with sore or cracked nipples
19. Counsel a mother with mastitis
14. Counsel a mother on selecting and using an alternative feeding method
15. Counsel a mother whose baby is refusing to breastfeed
20. Support a mother to breastfeed a low‑birth‑weight, preterm or sick baby