The Impact of Social Media on New Parents (Laurel Wilson)

Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, BSc, CCCE, CLC, CLD, CLE

Social media has proven to be the main way Millennial parents communicate and get healthcare information and yet privacy practices and guidelines for healthcare use of social media is lagging. Many healthcare providers wish to utilize social media to engage, educate, inform and interact with their patients and patients to be. However, due to a lack of distinct guidelines and misunderstanding about privacy practices with social media, many healthcare providers are unknowingly sharing personal and private healthcare information. This presentation describes what is viable to families, and how they are using social media, as well as how infant formula companies are using these platforms against the WHO Code. Learn how to use social media in a way that engages their clientele without compromising privacy.

 

Lactation Consultants
The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners has approved this course for a maximum of 1.25 E-CERPs.  IBLCE Verification Number C2002498.

Target Audience

This course is designed for nurses in the following practice settings: OB/GYN, maternal child, pediatrics, neonatal intensive care unit/critical care nursery, postpartum, LDRP, newborn nursery, infants and children’s unit; visiting nurses caring for mother/baby dyads, doulas, mid-wives, WIC counselors, La Leche League leaders, physicians in the following specialties: (pediatricians, OB/GYN, family practice, nurse practitioners, resident physicians in medicine-pediatrics, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology); parent educators, childbirth and breastfeeding instructors, lactation consultants, lactation counselors. The audience was determined based upon their proximity to the care of healthy and sick mother/baby dyads.

Learning Objectives

 

  1. Identify at least three ways moms are using social media during their pregnancy, labor, and early parenting.
  2. Identify two positive and negative impacts of social media on pregnant and breastfeeding women.
  3. List two ways to interact with new mothers on social without compromising privacy.
    Course summary
    Available credit: 
    • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.25 ANCC Contact Hours
    • 1.25 BCIPE Instructional Hours
    • 1.25 IBLCE E-CERPs
      The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners has approved The Impact of Social Media on New Parents (Laurel Wilson) for a maximum of 1.25 E CERPSs IBLCE
      Approval # C2002498
    Course opens: 
    09/10/2021
    Course expires: 
    10/02/2021
    Part of: 
    Annual Breastfeeding Conference - September 9 & 10, 2021
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    The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity. 

    None of the members of the faculty or planning committee have commercial relationships with commercial  companies providing goods or services used on patients.

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    FACULTY DISCLOSURE
    The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in health-care and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity. 

    Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, BSc, CCCE, CLC, CLD, CLE has written the book, The Attachment Pregnancy, Simon and Schuster and receives royalties through its sales.

    None of the members of the planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.

    In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Available Credit

    • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.25 ANCC Contact Hours
    • 1.25 BCIPE Instructional Hours
    • 1.25 IBLCE E-CERPs
      The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners has approved The Impact of Social Media on New Parents (Laurel Wilson) for a maximum of 1.25 E CERPSs IBLCE
      Approval # C2002498
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