Role of the Nurse in Encouraging Breastfeeding

Abstract

This article sought to demonstrate how nurses encourage breastfeeding through nursing care for women. The general objective was to understand the importance of the nurse's role in encouraging the breastfeeding process. The bibliographical research methodology was used, carried out through a literature review process based on qualitative research, with selection of scientific articles and works published in the databases of the Virtual Health Library (VHL), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Science (LILACS) and Google Scholar, from 2014 to 2023. Given the data and information collected, it was highlighted that the nursing professional has an extremely important role in encouraging the adoption and maintenance of breastfeeding, since by carrying out full monitoring of women during the gestational phase, it promotes the development of actions aimed at instruction, guidance and teaching about the importance of breastfeeding for their health and that of their child, as well as for the good development and growth of children, educating about the relevance of maintaining them for the appropriate period of time, as well as in relation to the main difficulties that can be faced and ways of solving each of these problems, in order to guarantee a practical care based on comprehensiveness, resolution and humanization in care, as well as a continuous and efficient care process for women.