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Morgan hit the nail on the head as far as I can discern from my limited
hospital experiences, both as a volunteer and as a PPLC called in for
consultations. The time factor is a huge problem, but so is the counseling skills.
Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to gracefully help people who lack such skills
as they usually believe they are just fine!
Perhaps some of this stress on hospital IBCLCs could be eliminated by more
IBCLCs getting into taking Pathway F students, who could do a lot of the
triage, then work under the direct supervision of their supervising IBCLC for the
actual hours. These students can be insured, and if we could convince
hospital adminisrators to loosen up a bit, help hospital based IBCLCs that these
people (once they take a week or two to train them) could actually make their
lives SOOO much easier, we might get somewhere.
Many years ago, when I was a hospital bf volunteer collecting hours, the
postpartum staff saved the moms who they designated the "needy whiners" for me,
because I had the patience and counseling skills for them. I had the time to
listen, and then call in the big guns. It worked pretty well for everyone
concerned.
This is another reason why my imaginary AA degree would include lots of
LLL-based counseling skill/HRE type training. It works.
Barbara
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