After 30+ years in MCH, and recently sending in all the materials (!) and
money (!) for IBCLC recertification, (15 years), I am taking a break from
hospital LC work. The service at the hospital has expanded greatly in the past few
years and is well staffed, I left the weeky Bf moms group in good hands.
Needing a change of scenery I took a PRN job a short 12 minute commute from
my home, in Occupational Health, ...same pay
The health care system I work for did a very good job retaining me by
helping me find a job within the system that met my criteria: something different
and interesting, no weekends, evenings, or holidays, closer to home.
This new job also happens to have no hospital committees, ....no worry about
mothers and babies, ...no annoyance about parents making bad feeding
decisions in spite of copious "customer service excellence focused" lactation
service efforts and support, ...no guilt over not working extra hours and days,
..no car-jammed commute, no parking problems, no staying late to see just a
couple more desperate pts or to respond to desperate staff. None of the other
intense, stressful, hospital-based issues.
Just needed a break from all that.
I have a feeling that other LCs have been through this phase.
Correct?
Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
_www.BestBreastfeeding.info_ (http://www.BestBreastfeeding.info)
Fairfax County, Virginia suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
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