Effect of Active Toolkit Training on Nursing Faculty Staff knowledge and Clinical Teaching Skills Related to BreastfeedingManagement

Women seek breastfeeding advice from nursing healthcare professionals,lack of nursing professional support with breastfeeding challenges and information is often inconsistent or conveys conflicting messages that inversely can negatively affect their breastfeeding experiences. However future nurses who are the next generation of nursing profession, many studies suggest that their educational breastfeeding knowledge and skills are inadequate and not providing the foundation needed to support breastfeeding women and families and needed new educational strategies to be adequately prepared toassist breastfeeding mothers.Aims of the study are to assess the Community Health Nursing and Pediatric Nursing faculty staff knowledge and clinical teaching skills related to breastfeeding management and to evaluate the effect of implementing an active toolkit training on faculty staff knowledge and clinical teaching skills related breastfeeding management. Additionally, to explore faculty staff satisfaction towards active clinical teaching skills strategies related to breastfeeding management.Material and methods: Quasi-experimental pre/post – test was followed to carry out the study. All Community Health Nursing and Pediatrics Nursing staff affiliated to teach breastfeeding contents at the Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University (43 faculty staff). Three tools were used to collect data includes participant’s breastfeeding knowledge structured questionnaire, case studies’ scenarios for assessing clinical practice teaching skills regarding breastfeeding management and staff self-reported clinical teaching skills’ satisfaction scale. Results:The findings of the present study revealed that the implementation of the active toolkit training leads to improve faculty staff breastfeeding total knowledge and clinical teaching skills scores and the majority of them were satisfied with active educational intervention applied.as concept map,and flipping the class as prospective method of teaching.Conclusion and recommendations: The application of active toolkit training has positive impact on assigned Nursing faculty staff knowledge and clinical teaching skills’ scores related to breastfeeding management. The overall results revealed highly satisfaction with the intervention appliedas, flipped class and concept mapping. Therefore developing comprehensive evidence based breastfeeding curriculum (theoretical and practical )standard to be applied by concerned nursing faculty departments.Furthermore, the application of innovative active teaching strategies should be emphasized and encouraged in relation to breastfeeding problems, counselling as well as problem solving skills in relation to need to be highlighted in students clinical setting. key words: active toolkit, breastfeeding managements, active learning strategies, flipping the class, oranges and breast . prompt pictures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 27-11-2018 Date of acceptance: 08-12-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------