Northwest AHEC
Course Number: 74763
2025 North Carolina Lactation Educator Training Program - Spring - Skills Day
Apr 30, 2025 - 08:00 AM EDT to 12:00 PM EDT
Jasmine Mickens
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Event Description: This course focuses on skills needed for providing basic breastfeeding management and support - including prenatal and postpartum counseling and management of common concerns and clinical problems.
The 2025 North Carolina Lactation Educator Training Program consists of online self-paced training modules and a separate in-person skills day. This is the registration for the skills day.
Objectives
Apply skills related to position and latch-on, common concerns, and counseling skills related to breastfeeding.
Discuss strategies to promote breastfeeding with cultural awareness.
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Audience
Healthcare professionals, physician assistants, midwives, health educators, nurses, nutritionists, and others who provide care to any parents and infants in any healthcare setting who may be lactating/breastfeeding are encouraged to participate.
Speakers
Sheila J Britt-Smith, MEd, RD, LDN, IBCLC
Georganna Cogburn, MS, RD, LDN, IBCLC, RLC
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