I just mentioned this a couple of days ago on another board...  One of  my 
nursing school exam questions was:  When does a nursing  mother's menstruation 
return?  I was dumbfounded because every answer  was a number of weeks with no 
answer making any particular sense.  Later I  was told that the correct answer 
was 16 weeks.  I became an IBCLC before I  became an RN, so of course, NONE 
of the possible answers were  correct.  When I pointed out the information was 
completely erroneous, my  instructor told me to just pay attention to the 
book.  I thought, "Great,  it doesn't matter whether the information is wrong or 
not, as long as it is in  the book."  I have found breastfeeding information to 
be  particularly antiquated in nursing school texts.  I literally had to 
answer  questions incorrectly on the NCLEX when it came to some 
lactation/postpartum  questions because I needed to pass the test, and I KNEW that they were not 
up to  date on thrush, mastitis, weight gain etc.  It irks me to see  poor 
information being taught as fact in a nursing program. 
 
 
Debbie  Albert, RN, Ph.D., LMHC, IBCLC, RLC
Advanced Lactation Care, Inc
Tampa,  FL    






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