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From: "Liz Brooks" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:29 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] new approach.........will it work?


**Hi Liz,

To the rescue:  our new IBLCE Scope of Practice for IBCLCs (downloadable at
www.ible.org), which now gives us the *duty*, in upholding the standards of
the IBCLC profession, to (amongst other things):
-- "integrat[e] knowledge and evidence when providing care for breastfeeding
families ..."
-- "educat[e] women, families, health professionals and the ocmmunity about
breastfeeding and human lactation"
-- "provide[e] holistic, evidence-based breastfeeding support and care, from
preconception to weaning, for women and their families"
-- "wor[k] collaboratively and interdependently with other members of the
health care team"

Repeat:  these are *duties.*

Which means we should all take it upon ourselves -- productively,
professionally, and with our very best manners -- to inform mothers when
they have been given poor advice, no matter how well-meaning the original
intent.

**How would you say, this translates to reporting to/about colleagues who
don't uphold these standards...?
An lc who, on the telephone, gives a mom the advice to just endure the pain
from her bleeding nipples... is this a violation of the SoP or the Code of
Ethics...?

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands

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