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FINAL NSPN 7150 MOD 5: Overcoming
Breastfeeding Challenges. Exam Questions
And Answers
What does Situated Clinical Decision Making Framework do - Answers✔a) assists to make
decisions.
b) used to guide retrospective reflection on decision-making processes and outcomes.
c) socializes you to an understanding of the nature of decision-making in nursing
d) fosters the development of knowledge, skill, and confidence.
Components of situated clinical decision making - Answers✔Knowledge
Cues
Judgement
Decisions
Evaluation of outcomes
Components of Knowledge from SCDM in breastfeeding - Answers✔Know the self (limitations,
skills, bias)
Know the case (patho, patterns, lactogenesis, psychosocial, what impacts effective feeding,
birth experience, behaviours, health)
Know the client (baseline, norms, effective feeding, weight gain and loss, frequency of feeding)
Know the person (pas experience in relation to health and illness, response to treatments and
preferences)
Components of Cues from SCDM in breastfeeding - Answers✔-Observations (variations that
could indicate difficulty, Mothers breasts, presence of colostrum or milk, Babys age, health
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colour, oral anatomy, ability to latch, Feeding relationship (comfort of mother and baby with
feeds, evidence of sufficient milk transfer.
-atypical responses/data/behaviour.
-statements from clients or others
(attitudes toward bf, knowledge and beliefs, labs and assessment data, bilirubin, weight,
lactogenesis, s+s of infection, nursing intuition
Components of Judgement from SCDM in breastfeeding - Answers✔What could be happening?
(organize observations and history factors that affect mother, baby)
What data/evidence supports this?
Do i need more info and from whom?
Who should i involve or consult (lactation consultatn, midwife physician)
What priority does this have
Components of Decisions from SCDM in breastfeeding - Answers✔How can we help mothers
feed their infant (wait and watch, try something, inform someone, act, involve or consult
someone else?)
Apply 3 rules: Feed infant, move milk, help dyad learn how to breast feed
Components of Evaluation of Outcomes from SCDM in breastfeeding - Answers✔Support
mother's ability to evaluate.
Did the decisions achieve what I wanted to happen?
Should I make another decision?
Should I collect more information?
Who should I involve or consult?
*Three breastfeeding Rules* - Answers✔Feed the infant
- is infant getting enough food appropriate to their age and weight to thrive?
Move the milk
- is milk production being effectively stimulated?