Accreditation and Quality Assurance Overview
Q
Agencija za kvalitet i
akreditaciju u zdravstvu
FBiH
Agency for Healthcare Quality
and Accreditation FB&H
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Development of BFH
Accreditation standards
Accreditation standards include a total of 14
standards and 66 criteria. These are based on
UNICEF's "Ten steps to successful breastfeeding"
and separated into tem chapters:
1. Breastfeeding policy (1 standard, 6 criteria);
2. Staff training (1 standard, 7 criteria);
3. Information on breastfeeding (1 standard, 5 criteria);
4. First contact and initiation of breastfeeding (2 standards, 6 criteria);
5. Breastfeeding and maintaining lactation (4 standards, 19 criteria);
6. Infant nutrition (1 standard, 9 criteria);
7. Rooming-in/bedding-in of mother with baby (1 standard, 3 criteria);
8. Breastfeeding "on demand" (1 standard, 4 criteria);
9. Abstaining from using pacifiers (1 standard, 3 criteria);
10. Support group for mothers (1 standard, 4 criteria).View entire presentation