>>OK, to answer what I believe the question was...at my hospital we have 0 FTE (LC, IBCLC whatever) I'm it.<< A FTE is a "full time equivelent". I'm a hospital based LC at a hospital that has around 200 births/month. We have 4 part time Lactation Specialists (2 IBCLC's, 1 IBCLC pending, and 1 LE) that equal 2.6 FTE's. We (try to) round on all moms on the Mother-Baby unit, as well as assistance as needed there. We also follow the moms/babies in the NICU (Newborn ICU) and go anywhere else in the hospital that we are asked to see a nursing mom &/or baby. We have an Outpatient Clinic where we see anywhere from 1 - 10 moms a week for Lactation Consultations. We also have assistance from 2 FTEs of RNs and also secretarial help at the Outpatient Clinic. The RNs do much of the telephone triage as well as staff our Breast Pump rental station. I don't know yet if 2.6 FTEs is enough for our situation (we've been short due to vacations, etc), but it's much improved from the 1.2 that we started with 3 years ago. Lori Salisbury, RN, IBCLC hospital based LC at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane WA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html