"a Ross sponsored dinner where nurses are being invited to hear a speaker
 (?) speak on "Counseling the Breastfeeding Mother"?...The IBCLCs in the
 hospital are planning on being there to check out what is going on."

 Well, I hope the IBCLCs review their code of ethics before they attend a
 dinner paid for by Ross Labs! They don't need to "check out what is going
 on" - we KNOW what is going on! And going to such a function, funded by Ross
 Labs, is incompatible with ethical conduct. In any hospital unit I've ever
 known, there will be plenty of people happy to go and report back - and you
 can bet your bottom dollar that the motivation is not to check it out, it's
 to get a free and probably lavish meal. >>

Cathy,

If this dinner happens to come to my area, I WILL be there to "check out what
is going on".  I WILL NOT eat or drink. I WILL NOT accept the CEU's.  I will
want to know what is being said first hand, and want to be there to refute
what they are telling the nurses where I live.  I have to reeducate the
nurses at my hospital periodically as it is.  If I am not at this function, I
won't be able to do that adequately if I don't see and hear it for myself.

Margie Forrest, RN, BSN, IBCLC in WPB, FL

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