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November 15, 2024 – WALC Quarterly Meeting Webinar via Zoom – Empowering and Advocating Navigating Lactation Journeys – Lisa Brock, RN, IBCLC, 10:00am-12:30 pm

Registration

10:00 am – 12:00 pm    – Empowering and Advocating Navigating Lactation Journeys:  Supporting transitional Lactation Care Continuums – Lisa Brock, RN, IBCLC

Lisa Brock has been a registered nurse since 1988, caring for hospitalized infants, critically ill neonates and their families. Her career has brought a focus into the area of lactation and  human milk. She has been an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1998.  As a Lactation Specialist, she advocates for families and their critically ill newborns, using  evidence based practices for best and safest care. Lisa is currently employed at Bellin Health’s family-centered care NICU in Green Bay Wisconsin. She is an active Board of Director for United States Lactation Consultants Association (USLCA) and a Board of Director at Large for Wisconsin  Association of Lactation Consultants (WALC).  She is an active member of the Mother’s Milk Bank of Western Great Lakes Bereavement Committee. 

Presentation description: 

“How you can support breastfeeding dyads after a NICU stay ~ Discussions with NICU IBCLC RN”, will be highly interactive with virtual audience.  Learners will be able to reflect on their practice and identify key opportunities to improve care they are providing for patients and families. Actively discuss and review lactation consultation and cue based feeding plans from hospital admission to discharge home, that supports transitional Lactation care continuum.  While gaining increased knowledge and anticipatory guidance for lactating parents emotional support needs with ongoing advocacy for dyads lactation journey.  So EXCITED for this educational opportunity!

Objectives – Following this session, learners will be able to:

  1. Reflect on their practice and identify an opportunity(s) to improve care they  provide for patients and families.
  2. Gain knowledge and anticipatory guidance for lactating parent, emotional support needs and ongoing advocacy for dyad during lactation journey.
  3. Discuss and review lactation consultation and cue based feeding plans:  from hospital admission to discharge home, supportive transitional Lactation care continuum.
  4. Identify clinical skills needed to support pump dependent parents. 

Lactation SIM Lab and EMPower Grant Education, Information – Aimee Preuss, IBCLC, RN

12:00 pm – General Meeting – All are welcome to attend

Registration – Link to the Zoom event will be sent via email several days before the event.

CERPs – 2 L CERPs

Cost – No fee for WALC Members

WALC welcomes new members! Annual Fee is $25 for membership from March through February, 2025. For information and to apply, return to the Home page or go to WALC.net, click on Membership Tab

SAVE THE DATE: March 6 & 7, 2025, WALC Conference, Oshkosh, WI

Questions or if you’d like to submit suggestions for topic and speaker, please contact Diane Oakland, WALC Program Chair, dianeoak@gmail.com