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10 steps to successful breastfeeding on screen text, interspersed with medical professionals, interviews and intimate glimpses of a diverse array of birthing, parents and newborns in hospital rooms. Step one have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff. The goal as ensure that the recommended practices are communicated and implemented through the breastfeeding policy. Linda Jackson, M Aib CLCLC CE prenatal education and lactation services coordinator, Methodist Richardson Medical Center. When you're working in a health care environment, everything that you do stems from all of your policies at Methodist Richardson Medical Center. We're part of a four hospital health system. And when we are putting together our policies, we have to look at them as a system. Many years ago, our policy was put together so that we could begin supporting our breast feeding moms in a very consistent evidence based way, an evidence based policy based on the who and UNICEF 10 steps to successful breastfeeding provides the framework to guide staff and leadership. When it comes to developing hospital policies, there's often a team put together to ensure that the policies follow evidence based practice. We have a team of managers staff, nurses, lactation consultants and physicians that work together to ensure that our policies follow the 10 steps, Ken Hutch and writer Junior F, Ach E Methodist Richardson Medical Center, I think as a health care administrator, it is vitally important for me to lead. By example, I can help provide the resources, personnel budget to support the training, to be able to support the total initiative so that when a patient comes to our facility, they are able to take full advantage of the benefits of the 10 steps. Implementing all 10 steps has a significant impact on the initiation and duration of exclusive breastfeeding. One thing that's really cool is that these steps all work together. So you train your staff and the staff gets the skills that they need to help the moms. They help the moms and the moms are successful with breastfeeding, Kayley Steele MD I BC LC, pediatrician state breastfeeding coordinator, Texas Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics, Parkland Health and hospital System. The steps are good on their own but they're more powerful when used together. It's like a whole package. If you have every piece in place, it makes it a lot better for the baby and the mother to learn their feeding cues, kind of like dancing, establish a project team or task force with a dedicated leader and a core steering committee. It takes the whole team working together across the facility. Plus leadership support to put the policy in Place Jose Garcia M DS M neonatologist and pediatrician, professor of pediatrics mcgovern Medical School at UT Health Chief of Pediatrics Health System LBJ Hospital. What Maria did in implementing this? She took these 10 steps, assigned them to one of the stakeholders and those stakeholders then had accountability. Maria de Souza rncne ABC, Director of Nursing, women, infant and Children, Lyndon B, Johnson Hospital. Houston. Our policy is based from which is our sister facility and we've made changes to our needs as the policies were being implemented. Maria would provide us the drafts and really ask us for our input. It was a collaborative alignment of all the stakeholders. In order to make that policy work for LBJ, we couldn't have done it without our administrative team and we are very lucky to have them, Jesse Tucker the third phd F, Ach E Harris Health, evplbjgh administrator Lyndon B Johnson Hospital. Maria and her team came to me with a proposal about two years ago and I immediately signed off. I was already sold on the advantages of breastfeeding from financial perspectives from clinical perspectives and, and also from an evidence based practice perspective, Derek L, Curtis, Senior MA BS N, Associate administrator, Chief Nursing Officer Lyndon B Johnson Hospital. It's all about team work when we were ready to roll out the policy and the steps, the directors from each department all put on scrubs came into the unit and um they picked a shift and they worked with the nurses hand in hand to make sure that it was successful. As a public hospital, about 65% of our patients actually have no coverage. This was a huge opportunity for us to number one improve clinical outcomes. Number two help our financial situation and and also at the end of the day, patients are a lot happier, ensure interdisciplinary participation in policy development. It affects every part of our facility, not just the maternity services area, even from the standpoint of our supply chain, we're able to redistribute the funds that we used to expend for formula to actual other areas of the hospital and actually expand our care in ways that we weren't able to do before develop an action plan for communication, implementation and evaluation. The policy is not set in stone, it's a living documents. So we make changes all the time, how you communicate, policy changes to staff is critical. They have to be involved from the beginning so that they um are able to implement the changes that are made. The breastfeeding policy is posted at the nurses station. It's available online for the nurses whenever they required. And at every training we go over it over time, it becomes a standard of care for our nurses and it's just a resource that they can refer to any time they need it. The Texas 10 step program can connect you with resources for policy development. There's lots of help the website is fantastic. You can go on there and have a way to approach your leadership to sell the notion that the 10 steps saves money for the hospital that it can get market share, the language that they understand. We went into medicine to help people. And we know that there's evidence based steps that can improve the health of the mother and baby. You can do this. You can implement these steps seriously start small, do what you can do and you can make a difference. Texas 10 step, Texas tens stepp dot org, Texas health and human services, Texas wic smart choices, healthy families.