Janet:

While you are in the process of educating staff, put some muscle behind
that education by rewriting your hospital's Policies, Procedures &
Guidelines on infant feeding, pumping, storing & using human milk, etc.
etc...
Get yourself on every Collaborative Practice committee and Process
Improvement committee and your Nursing P&P committee.
Include Standing Orders for when to call you and when the staff, now that
they are educated, should do basic latch & positioning or set up the pump &
teach mom themselves.
Congratulations on having two!! IBCLCs for 2000 deliveries a year. We have
3 IBCLCs for 5500 to 6000 per year.

> Our first major hurdle is staff education.  We have the typical problems
> with this, like "inconsistent information" and "topping off a breast
> feeding".

> I'm hoping to make this a time not only for learning, but also for fun.
Do
> any of you have any ideas of how to lighten the mood?  I remember reading
> somewhere about cupcakes that are decorated with frosting and candy to
> represent different breast conditions.  Does anyone have this?  Anything
> else along those lines?  Any suggestions?

Get Linda Smith's book on teaching techniques. Dozens of quick & easy fun
things to well-planned serious education to drive home your point.

Phyllis


--- Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC
--- Glendale, AZ, USA
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