Have you read Rebecca Mannel's staffing study that was published in the Journal of Human Lactation?  I think that there is a reference to the staffing ratio in that article.  I thought that the ratio was 1:1,000

 Last year at the ILCA conference, the Inter Mountain Hospital group from Utah had a presentation about staffing.  They confirmed Mannel's statistics were accurate in their institutions.  Rachel Wahl RN IBCLC   

 

> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:15:41 -0400
> From: "Elliott, Diane" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: ILCA Staffing Recommendations
> 
> Hello,
> Does anyone know the reference, or if there is a reference, for any =
> ILCA staffing recommendations pertaining to hospital-based LC's? =
> Specifically, I have heard that there is a recommended ratio of one =
> full-time LC for every 1,200 live births. I have not been able to find =
> this in print. Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
> Diane Elliott MS, RN,C, IBCLC
> Clinical Educator
> Mount Nittany Medical Center
> State College, PA 16803


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