Competency verification toolkit: Ensuring competency of direct care providers to implement the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative

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)