{"id":13490,"date":"2020-03-06T03:53:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/gwach\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:44:56","slug":"winter-quarter-certificate-student-spotlight-kristen-trivelli-doctorate-of-nurse-practitioner-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2020\/03\/06\/winter-quarter-certificate-student-spotlight-kristen-trivelli-doctorate-of-nurse-practitioner-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Quarter Certificate Student Spotlight: Kristen Trivelli, Doctorate of Nurse Practitioner Student"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kristen Trivelli<\/strong>, a third-year Family Nurse Practitioner doctoral student in the School of Nursing and current Global WACh Certificate student, traveled to Zimbabwe in summer of 2018 to complete her certificate capstone on breastfeeding education. \u00a0The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the benefits associated with breastfeeding so valuable that it is the recommended feeding method for mothers and infants worldwide for the first six months of the infants\u2019 lives.\u00a0 However, current research shows exclusive breastfeeding rates are low in Zimbabwe.\u00a0 With the support of the Department of Global Health\u2019s GO-Health Fellowship, Kristen sought to understand how breastfeeding education is provided from the perspective of nurses, and how parents receive this education in Zimbabwe. \u00a0She designed and led her own qualitative study and hopes to share her findings with stakeholders to improve exclusive breastfeeding rates in the country.<\/p>\n

Based in Chidamyo, Kristen was surrounded by a wonderful community\u2014nurses, doctors, village health workers, Ministry of Health officials, and the Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe\u2014that exposed her to the public health programs and maternal-child health services offered in well-baby outreach clinics. \u00a0She stayed with the Sister-in-Charge of Chidamoyo Christian Hospital, a Certified Midwife Nurse and an American expat, who lent deeper insight to and understanding of the health policies and protocols Kristen observed among nurses. \u00a0Twice a week, the nurses of Chidamoyo Christian Hospital drove long distances on bumpy dirt roads to provide outreach services to rural communities that may have limited access to care.\u00a0 Kristen joined the nurses and observed their provision of immunizations, family planning services, and breastfeeding education to families. The nurses\u2019 dedication to providing quality care to communities, despite how far away they lived, truly inspired her.<\/p>\n

Rural mothers and families should be targeted priority groups within breastfeeding and well-baby promotion programs. Kristen hopes her study findings may help health care professionals and policymakers in Zimbabwe to empower nurses, and to improve the quality of breastfeeding outreach education and its integration into programming specific to rural populations.<\/p>\n

See Kristen\u2019s capstone research-style poster, along with posters by other graduating Certificate students of the 2019-2020 academic year, at Global WACh\u2019s \u201cNext Big Thing\u201d year-end event on Monday, June 1st<\/sup> from 4-6 PM in the UW Husky Union Building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kristen Trivelli, a third-year Family Nurse Practitioner doctoral student in the School of Nursing and current Global WACh Certificate student, traveled to Zimbabwe in summer of 2018 to complete her certificate capstone on breastfeeding education. \u00a0The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the benefits associated with breastfeeding so valuable that it is the recommended feeding method…<\/p>\n

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