I have been trying to put my thoughts into a coherent sentence to write about Rachel's post. I am appalled that IBLCE thinks that their SOP is just for a certain classification of IBLCEs. This makes no sense! How will they discipline an IBCLC in situations where she "contradicts" a doctor? Will they say an RN/IBCLC who contradicts a doctor should have the complaint filed with her state governing board of nurses rather than the IBLCE? Let me say that we need all classifications in this profession -- all add value. It does seem to me that IBLCE is aiming to get rid of non-nurse/doctor IBCLCs as the non-medical people have no other governing board so are the ones to fall under this poorly written, poorly explained SOP. As far as the term "Lactation Consultant" -- anyone can call themselves this. With any amount of training, it is a generic term. A CLC is also a lactation consultant, whether we IBCLCs like that or not. The nurses at the local hospitals that do breastfeeding helping and who have no credentials/training beyond nursing, are also called LCs. Parents and doctors have no idea what any of this education level or terminology means. Since the public doesn't know, and the IBLCE seems to write documents without reading them first, if an RN can be an LC at a hospital without being IBCLC, why do so? If one could do private practice without being an IBCLC, why bother? You can do all this now, and are not subject to the IBLCE poorly written and almost un-understandable SOP. What a step backwards for this profession. Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]