Breastfeeding: Importance, Challenges, and Professional Responsibilities

Breastfeeding

Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................3
PATCH WORK 1- Being an accountable professional...........................................................................3
PATCH WORK 2- Promoting health and preventing ill health...............................................................6
PATCH WORK 3- Accessing, retrieving, evaluating and applying information.....................................8
PATCH WORK 4- Assessing needs, planning care, providing and evaluating care..............................10
REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY..........................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Health care means the effort which a person known as medical professional, make to
restore mental physical emotional wellbeing of people. There are many different departments in
healthcare units are devoted to treat specific diseases and problems Similarly, breast feeding is
also a job of health care professional on Which are lactating mother is taught to breast feed her
child in a proper way. The theme chosen for this file is breast feeding which is an important task
for medical professionals especially for newly born babies. The rationale behind this is that
breast feeding maybe seen as a simple thing but it took wise good amount of time and efforts
together with appropriate techniques to feed an infant (Victora, and et al., 2016). There are four
triggers points which have been chosen such as being an accountable professional, promoting
health and preventing ill health, assessing, extracting, evaluating and application of information
and finally identifying needs planning, providing and evaluating care. It is important to
understand the work and duties of a professional, bringing awareness about the health for
preventing diseases, gathering information to be used for the treatment etc. This file will give the
thorough knowledge about how the medical professionals Work for taking care of the patients in
an effective way. Apart, from this different patch work has been done for understanding the
chosen theme which is breastfeeding. This is done by connecting the theme with the trigger
pointers so that even a layman can understand what the report is trying to deliver.
MAIN BODY
PATCH WORK 1- Being an accountable professional
Health care requires high quality of care as improper or inappropriate treatment can make the
condition of the patients worse. It is an essential on the part of professionals to have good experience in their
respective fields so that they can deliver the right treatment to people. Breast feeding needs experiences and
good set of skills which should be known to the medical professionals as this may prevent any negative
clinical outcomes.
When a patient delivers a baby, there arise lots of different kind of needs of patients. Such needs
can be fulfilled only if the medical professional is accountable enough to apply the experience and skills
with at most care also by respecting and maintaining the dignity and safety of patient (Reeve and et. al.,

2017). To meet the growing health care needs of patience it is important for professionals to update
themselves with latest techniques knowledge and have professional behaviors with patient centered care.
In their vulnerable situation such patients need high quality of care and breastfeeding is one of the
challenging task which can be handled with care and safety by professional only when they are attentive and
non-judgmental while showing compassion and sympathy. For example, the patient may feel
uncomfortable with the nurse while breastfeeding the infant but accountable professional can make the
patient comfortable with excellent communication skills and talking politely health care professionals are
humans only, there may be scope of errors and mistakes buy them even after following the code of conduct
and all the necessary safety measures (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,
2019).
For nurses to deliver a good experience of care to patients, nurses should always evaluate
their care; making sure the care they are providing is safe, e.g. consent and confidentiality are
tailed in an appropriate manner, according to the NMC Code of conduct. It is imperative for
nurses to respect the moral principle of their patients’. Nurses should use excellent
communication skills when interacting with their clients, in order to build a trusty relationship
among the nurse and the patient.
Nurses must respect a woman’s decision not to breastfeed her baby, says the Royal
College of Midwives in a new position statement on the hotly-debated topic. While the document
is clear the RCM believes exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months is the “most
appropriate method of infant feeding”, it also stresses the need to respect a woman’s right to
choose whether she breastfeeds or not. “As with other areas of maternity care, midwives and
maternity support workers should promote informed choice,” said the position statement
(Berkman and et. al.2015).
It added: “If, after being given appropriate information, advice and support on
breastfeeding, a woman chooses not to do so, or to give formula as well as breastfeeding, her
choice must be respected.” The statement comes amid concern that mothers may be put under
pressure or made to feel like they have somehow “failed” if they do not breastfeed. “We
recognize that some women cannot or do not wish to breastfeed and rely on formula milk. “They
must be given all the advice and support they need on safe preparation of bottles and responsive
feeding to develop a close and loving bond with their baby.