The exploration of the effects that role-playing and scripting have on the efficacy of encouraging postpartum women to adopt exclusive breastfeeding is essential since it will allow the target audience to understand the importance of exclusive breastfeeding and the role that it plays in child’s development. Therefore, it is essential to sustain the project so that the efficacy of the proposed solutions to low exclusive breastfeeding rates could be evaluated and that they could be applied to the midwifery environment (Aarseth, Ahola, Aaltonen, Økland, & Andersen, 2017).
Namely, the project needs to be applicable to different scenarios and used actively in the future, thus extending its longevity and usefulness. For this purpose, three core strategies aimed at increasing the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of the project will be deployed.
The first strategy to be used involves addressing the social aspect of ensuring sustainability. Namely, it will be crucial to evaluate the extent of social security that the target audience receives and offer the approaches that will lead to the most effective management of their health needs, including the task of breastfeeding (Huber, Joseph, Farag, & Watson, 2018). Specifically, since the idea of exclusive breastfeeding implies that the mother will have to stay at home with the child for a prolonged amount of time, she will need to receive the necessary skills to be able to return to her career-related activities to maintain her economic well-being.
Another important strategy that has to be used in order to keep the sustainability of the project concerns the social aspect of the experiment. Namely, there is a possibility that, due to differences in the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of researchers and research participants, misunderstandings and cases of miscommunication will occur (Cuéllar-Gálvez, Aranda-Camacho, & Mosquera-Vásquez, 2018). To avoid the scenarios in which mothers misinterpret the guidelines offered to them and, thus, fail to participate in the exclusive breastfeeding program, one will have to introduce the communication framework that will minimize the threat of misconceptions.
Specifically, the use of nonverbal communication along with the verbal one and the application of emotional intelligence skills to determine the extent of mothers’ understanding of the subject matter will be needed. The use of emotional intelligence has a particularly high significance since it will allow spotting whenever any of the participants has difficulties comprehending a particular piece of information or instructions (Levin, Wright, Pecoraro, & Kopec, 2016).
Finally, the environmental strategy will have to be deployed to address the issues that are related to sustainability policymaking. While, as a researcher, one is unlikely to change the existing policies, introducing new suggestions is a possibility that, when supported by evidence and facts, can create a platform for improvement. Therefore, the overview of the current regulations and standards for nursing practice in the target environment will have to be deemed necessary (Feinberg, Bowman, & Lipman, 2017). With the analysis of the key policies related to breastfeeding and postpartum women, in general, insights into the improvement of the target environment can be made.
By introducing the strategies of social, economic, and environmental sustainability into the project, one will be able to carry it into the future and make it easily applicable to a variety of nursing settings. Specifically, it is important to ensure that the project in question works not only for the culture represented by the participants of the research but also for women belonging to other cultures and ethnicities. In addition, the specified tools will help the target audiences to develop basic health management and literacy skill so that they could avoid making erroneous decisions concerning the issues of nutrition and health management, in general, for their children.
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