I started off as a NON-RN IBCLC, and have only acquired my RN  recently.  
Many who are familiar with RN programs around the country  know that lactation 
turns out to be a paragraph, or if we are really lucky,  a few pages in the 
nursing OB text.  I was appalled at what was  considered Lactation education in my 
own RN program.  I am not writing  this to debate an already well-debated 
topic between RN and NON-RN IBCLC.   My purpose is to point out that all IBCLCs 
get the majority of their  lactation education from IBCLC educational programs, 
and more needs to be done  in Nursing schools.
 
    Rather than moan about it, I decided to DO  something, so I will be going 
back to my alma mater to teach their lactation  section, and I am suggesting 
that this is one way to promote lactation to 60-100  impressionable fledgling 
nurses at one time.  I hope to give current talk  about latch and follow it up 
with a discussion about IBCLE certification  and ILCA membership.  I think 
this is something that many of us could  do, and in most cases--SHOULD DO.  it 
would just take 2 hours  of our time per college semester.  This is a focus 
that I feel our  profession desperately needs to pursue.
 
 
 
Debbie  Albert, RN, Ph.D., LMHC, IBCLC, RLC
Tampa Lactation Counseling
Tampa,  FL 

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