Healthcare providers' perceptions of breastfeeding peer counselors in the neonatal intensive care unit

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 460-474

  Rossman, Beverly ^a   Engstrom, Janet L ^a,b   Meier, Paula P ^a,c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Frontier Nursing University   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding peer counselors; Diffusion of innovations; Framework analysis; Neonatal intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COUNSELING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MANPOWER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN NURSING; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST FEEDING; COUNSELING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NEONATAL NURSING; PEER GROUP;

EID: 84866281591     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.21496     Document Type: Article

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