Infant feeding: a reflection regarding the nursing curricula in Mexico City
Monserrat Salas Valenzuela1, Pilar Torre Medina-Mora2, Citlal Meza Segura2
1Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México.
Abstract:
Given the key position of the nursing profession in primary health care, in this article we examine the nursing degree curricula in public institutions in Mexico City to establish whether these programs of study include the topics necessary to implement the current recommendations regarding infant feeding. We perform a documentary analysis that compares the nursing curricula to the two official regulations existing on the subject. In a total of eleven locations, nine public institutions offer undergraduate degrees in nursing. There are seven programs of study in existence, with different structures, course names, and thematic contents among them and all with insufficient and outdated bibliography. We recommend that the programs be made more equivalent, that the bibliography be updated, and that the relevant official standards and international literature be included, so as to better meet the challenges of modernity and globalization in the subject of infant feeding.
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