Competency verification toolkit: Ensuring competency of direct care providers to implement the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
5 August 2020
| Toolkit
Overview
The 2018 BFHI Implementation Guidance called for greater pre-service education on breastfeeding and called upon all maternity facilities to “Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding (Step 2).” This guide presents a comprehensive competency verification toolkit to assist countries, health care systems and individual facilities to assess staff competency in the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to implement the Ten Steps. The toolkit introduces a Competency Verification Tool with performance indicators, and Examiners Resource to clearly spell out correct and incorrect responses/behaviours, a set of multiple-choice questions, case studies, and observation tools.
Annexes
- Web Annex A. Competency verification form (sorted by domain and competency)
21 pages, pdf (359.3Kb) - Web Annex B. Competency verification form (sorted by BFHI step)
22 pages, pdf (363.7Kb) - Web Annex C. Examiner's resource (sorted by domain and competency)
38 pages, pdf (537.9Kb) - Web Annex D. Examiner's resource (sorted by BFHI step)
40 pages, pdf (546.4Kb) - Web Annex E. Multiple choice questions for knowledge verification
16 pages, pdf (259.8Kb) - Web Annex F. Case studies for knowledge, skills and attitudes verification
13 pages, pdf (459.0Kb) - Web Annex G. Observation tools for knowledge, skills, and attitudes verification
16 pages, pdf (355.5Kb)
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- Web Annex A. Competency verification form (sorted by domain and competency).
- Web Annex B. Competency verification form (sorted by BFHI step)
- Web Annex C. Examiner's resource (sorted by domain and competency)
- Web Annex D. Examiner's resource (sorted by BFHI step)
- Web Annex E. Multiple choice questions for knowledge verification
- Web Annex E. Multiple choice questions for knowledge verification (answer key)
- Web Annex F. Case studies for knowledge, skills and attitudes verification
- Web Annex G. Observation tools for knowledge, skills, and attitudes verification
- Performance Indicators excel sheet that is the basis for Annexes A and B
- Multiple choice questions excel sheet that is the basis for Annex E
WHO Team
Editors
World Health Organization & United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Number of pages
29
Reference numbers
ISBN: 9789240008854 (Toolkit), 9789240009356 (Annex A), 9789240009356 (Annex B), 9789240009356 (Annex C), 9789240009387 (Annex D), 9789240009394 (Annex E), 9789240009400 (Annex F), 9789240009400 (Annex G)