In a message dated 1/27/98 3:24:48 PM, you wrote:

<<> Because we are hospital based and
> hired we can only hire RN's.  The part-time position could be someone
planning
> to sit the exam this year.


Was I the only one who took offense to this?>>

No, Assunta, you are not the only one who took offense.  Unfortunately, the
hospitals in my city also feel this way and do without appropriate coverage
rather than hire non-RN IBCLCs.  A real shame, isn't it?

I teach childbirth classes at a local hospital, but the same one will not even
consider me as a teacher for their breastfeeding classes or their LC work.
The other hospital even makes the RN stipulation for their childbirth
educators!

Lisa Updike, BA, ICCE, IBCLC