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BFHI Training For:
Nurses

Physicians

Support Staff

NEW Competency Based Training
(BFUSA™ 6th edition guidelines)

Direct Care Personnel

14 hour

Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers

4 hours
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Benefits for you:
Accessibility to all staff members at convenient times (24/7/365)

Behavior changing training

Cost Effectiveness
How it works:
Listen to the instructor

View the powerpoint slides

Each lesson is 20-45 minutes

Self paced, start anytime

Enroll your staff and begin training immediately. Staff will be sent user information and passwords and can access the online training from work computers or from home. Each staff member will see their lessons on their learning plan. When all items on the learning plan have been completed a certificate will be generated.

Women interested in content on computer Hospital administrators or site administrator

The designated course coordinator will be able to view all of the students from her institution. Leadership can monitor where students are on their learning plan or who has not started yet.

Do you have your own Learning Management System? Our courses are SCORM and HTML5 compliant and can be loaded onto most any system you have. Our tech support will work with your IT to make sure that it integrates with your Learning Management System. Contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details. Request a Quick Quote !

Technical Support

We will coordinate with the IT department at your hospital before lessons begin to assure compatibility with your unit computers. LER will provide technical support via telephone and email 7 days a week from 0800 to 2000 ET. Frequently asked questions are posted on the website.

Secure Course Access

Access to the course is secured by username and password. The facility will designate a coordinator for training to facilitate communication with LER. A course coordinator will determine the staff members who will participate in the program. The coordinator will provide this list of students names and email addresses to LER in Excel format, and the LER tech support team will load the information into LER’s Learning Management System.

Continuous updates

Lactation Education Resources courses are monitored and modified to ensure they provide the latest information and research as it becomes available. In this way, the training package will be kept current during the entire term of the contract.

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Our training program will address three key issues:

Accessibility to all lessons at convenient times (24/7/365)
Behavior changing training
Cost effectiveness

Our lessons are recorded in a webcast format so the learner sees the power point slides and hears the speaker’s voice. Each lesson is 20-45 minutes in length so students can access the materials when they have a short window of time, or can do several lessons when they have a longer period of time to devote to it. Each lesson is sprinkled with realistic hospital scenarios, links out to relevant web pages, and contains quick quizzes and “fast facts”.

Do you have your own Learning Management System? Our courses are SCORM compliant and can be loaded onto most any system you have. Contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details.

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We know you want enthusiastic staff when they are finished with the training. Staff who know how to help breastfeeding mothers in the most effective way and why it is important. Our course was built with this in mind. Staff will feel empowered to help mothers and to effect the changes that are needed to meet the BFHI criteria. Request a Quick Quote!

Typical training programs where students attend on-site training classes require enormous amounts of staff time and can become costly. Programs need to be developed, classes need to be repeated so all staff members can attend and attendance needs to be monitored. This all adds to training costs. An e-learning program is a great solution allowing fixed costs so there are no surprises when all staff has not yet been completely trained and you have come to the end of your budget.

A common concern of online programs is effectiveness and learner engagement. The webinar slides need to be manually advanced so that the student cannot just start the lesson running and walk away. The course is interesting with fast paced visual and audio components. It is loaded with images. In addition, we have planned several types of engaging content and pop quizzes that will involve the student along the way.

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Lactation Education Resources has been providing lactation management courses for over 20 years.

BFHI training was developed specifically to meet the educational requirements of Baby-Friendly USA. Our courses cover all 'Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding' and will prepare your staff to care for breastfeeding mothers AND successfully achieve BFUSA accreditation.

Training for Direct Care Personnel

Fourteen hours of webcast lessons in our newly-designed Storybook format covering all of the 10 Steps to breastfeeding success. Most lessons are about 45 minutes in length. Students can work at their own pace. Also, each student gets a 12-month access period to the training from the date of their enrollment.

Training for Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers

Four hours of webcast lessons in the Storybook format as well; providing 4 CME credits upon completion.

Customize your Training with optional courses

Annual Update
Basics of Lactation Management
Becoming Baby-Friendly (for licensed and unlicensed personnel)
BreaSteps (for NICU staff)

Click here for details.

Clinical Competency Training

LER is committed to assisting Nurse Educators to improve the skills of their staff by providing support and clinical education recommendations as requested. If you feel a consultation might be necessary, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Consultations can be arranged with our Accredited Provider Program Director in one hour increments. Fee applies.