Praise for team of nourish at the breasts at Olds Hospital I am a former AARN member.

Praise for team of nourish at the breasts at Olds Hospital

I am a former AARN member, a clinical specialist in gerontology and generally a health care administrator living in the U through the whole extent of the past couple of years, our family has lived the experience of my mother's physical and mental deterioration thanks to Parkinson's disease. During this time, my dad carried the increasing, and finally untenable, tonnage of care giving. This has consequence ed in my mother occupying a bed in the acute care unit at ancients Hospital while awaiting longterm care placement.

This note is offered in praise of the team of pampers at the Olds Hospital acute care unit and placement co-ordinator, subordinate to the supervision of Joyce Wicks, RN My mother arrived in advanced in yearss in a bed-ridden, debilitated state. Thanks to the professional assessment, exemplary nursing skills, and above all, compassion and caring, my mother's physical condition has been transformed to the point where she now walks with a walker and is able to have luncheon in the dining area.

This team of nourish at the breasts exemplifies the holistic approach to care and has given my mother the potential to live this final stage of her life with abundant more quality and dignity than always seemed possible. The team's professionalism and caring was demonstrated calm further in the work that was done to inform and educate my father about the theory while giving him full heed and empathy for the capacity that he had shouldered as my mother's caregiver.

With all the presss in today's health care regularity it would be easy for frontline staff to throw away sight of the human qualities that are in this way basic to good nursing care - the dedication of the acute care team at old-fashioneds is to be celebrated!

Melanie Macdonald, RN BScN Colorado Springs, Colorado 1999 Nursing Week placard subject of controversy

The Alberta Association of Registered festers of Alberta official 1999 Nursing Week hand-bill generated a number of e-mail messages and telephone calls oppos to the figure of the female give suck to feeding an infant with a bottle

The majority of the complaints follow from lactation consultants and registered succors working in maternal/infant care who correlate to the image of an RN feeding an infant from an artificial means. This illustration, the complainants say, denies the important part that nurses play in supporting mothers to fix upon breastfeeding as a natural and healthy way of feeding infants.

The image has not been conceived as a graphic representation of the AARNs position in succession how infants should be f The illustration was commissioned according to the AARN to depict the Alberta Nursing Week theme Registered nourish at the breasts - Leaders in Health. The painting depicts the diverse leadership characters that registered nurses play in health care, and the direct relationship registered nourish at the breasts have with clients of all ages and various health conditions.

The association supports lactation consultants, pediatric give suck tos and maternal/infant care nurses who raise the healthy benefits of breast milk for infants. The AARN is forward record for its 1994 endorsement of brace international World Health Organizations position statements that define in what manner hospitals, health care agencies and health care workers should educate and support mothers to breastfeed their infants: (The Joint World Health Organization (WHO/UNICEF) Statement: Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breast Feeding: The Special part of Maternity Services (1989); and for what cause breastmilk substitutes should be advertised and sold (World Health Organization (WHO) digest for the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (1981)

The following is a selection of alphabetic characters the association received on the [i]affiche[/i] and the Nursing Week advertisements that were generated from it.

I was astonished and same disappointed to see that undivided of the most prominent parts featured is a nurse bottle-- feeding an infant. It would have been actual appropriate to show a feed assisting a breastfeeding mother - a more modem part for a nurse. It would also have shown a great deal of more accurately, the role foments play in family-centered maternity care.

Breastfeeding is the normal way to fe human infants. It's exceedingly disappointing to see a province-wide ad depicting a encourage bottlefeeding - a pretty old-fashioned character and one that is not health-promoting.

Leslie Ayre-Jaschke

Peace River AB

I am actual disappointed that the AARN used a picture of a nurture bottle-feeding a baby in the ad that ran in the Edmonton Journal in April.

This emblem of advertising continues to support the belief that bottle-feeding is the norm in our tillage As you are aware, breastfeeding is the optimal form of infant nutrition and is a primary health promotion strategy for as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but mothers and babies. Early, inappropriate supplementation with formula contributes to early allergic sensitization and lactation failure.

It is important that nourishs give the right health messages in their advertising. supply with nourishments support mothers to breastfeed by the agency of practising family-centered maternity care, encouraging and supporting rooming in, teaching antenatal breastfeeding classes forward breastfeeding, assisting mothers to initiate breastfeeding while in the hospital and supporting them to do in such a manner in the community. Bottle-feeding a baby could be seen as a contributor to ill health!