Consider benefits of adding HUG Your Baby’s “Birth, Breastfeeding and Beyond” to your curriculum.
Watch to learn how our evidence-based, digital course teaches maternity and pediatric nursing students how to counsel parents with babies birth to one year.
HUG Your Baby responds to the challenges today’s Schools of Nursing face by providing:
Variety of teaching strategies to address diverse learning styles
Pre-/Post-tests and course evaluation
Two-hour digital HUG program available for uploading to school’s learning system
Engaging parent-child videos, inspiring case studies and memorable graphics
Multicultural and inclusive images
Research confirms a positive impact of HUG Your Baby teaching on nursing students:
✔ increased students’ knowledge of child’s development
✔ heightened students’ confidence to teach parents
“HUG Your Baby is an innovative and effective resource for teaching nursing students key aspects of infant-mother bonding, feeding and developmental cues.”
“The videos gave me confidence that I could actually teach parents just like the instructor! This is a game-changer for me and the patients I will have in the years ahead.”
Research on HUG Your Baby in Schools of Nursing and Midwifery
Undergraduate nursing students taking a two-hour HUG Your Baby online course demonstrated increased knowledge of infant behavior, enhanced confidence to teach parents and would recommend the course to student nurses. (UNC-Chapel Hill SON – Alden, K. [2018]. JPE 27[2].) Click Here.
APNP students who completed HUG Your Baby’s virtual breastfeeding education during their women’s health or pediatric nurse practitioner curriculum showed significant gains in knowledge and confidence to support breastfeeding regardless of past personal or professional experience. Duke University SON - Malinda Teague, DNP, CPNP and Kathy Trotter, DNP, WHNP, CNM. Jo of Nurse Practitioners, 19 (2), 104468. (2023). Click Here.
ABSN students noted that the HUG Your Baby practicum reinforced content learned in the online course and provided an opportunity to imagine using this content with patients. (UNC-Chapel Hill SON – pending publication)
ADN students gave positive feedback about completing the introductory HUG Your Baby online course and would recommend this training to other ADN students. (Rock Valley College, Illinois SON - pending publication)
HUG Your Baby is featured in the best-selling maternal/child textbook, Maternal Child Nursing Care. Sixth Edition. Perry, S., Lowdermilk, D., et al (2018). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. See Chapter 23, “Helping Parents Recognize, Interpret, and Respond to Newborn Behaviors.”