Jennifer says:
 
<<If this profession was  
intended to stand on it's own, then anyone in control of credentialing  
would have designed qualifications that took into account the needs of  
mothers and babies and the broad range of backgrounds from which IBCLCs  
might come, rather than using nursing training as a foundation for  
building the credential. That having been done--there was no other  
possible outcome but the one before us now.>>


 
Jennifer, I would like to know  what you mean by "using nursing training as a 
foundation for building the  credential." 
 
While I don't agree with what is  going on now, with the IBLCE backpedaling 
on their SOP stance (how silly to say  it is just for the non-licensed HCP), I 
don't see that the founder used nursing  education as a foundation.  By the 
way, nurses are educated, not  trained.  Dogs are trained.  :>D
 
Please do keep in mind that  JoAnne Scott who was the founding executive 
director was not a nurse.  Most  of the original IBCLCs were not nurses.  It 
happens that nurses are in the  right place to become IBCLCs as they are the people 
that are working with the  mothers and babies in the hospitals, and as birth 
becomes more interventive (far  more so now than it was in 1984 when the 
credential was first thought of -- and  I've been an RN in MCH for more years than 
many of you are old, so I know  whereof I speak....) mopping up the messes -- 
or trying to,  anyway.
 
So it is not a credential that is  designed only for health care 
professionals.  It was designed for people of  many backgrounds to become credentialed in 
order to legitimize their education  and knowledge.  The fact that 20 years 
later the board was short sighted  enough to write a scope of practice that 
benefits NOBODY should not be a  reflection on the original intent.  The question 
before us all is what are  we going to do about it?
 
And one thing we are doing is  working on a new scope of practice.




Jan  Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
_Lactation Education  Consultants_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/)  




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