The description of a nurse telling mothers that "Lipil is the best," violates the ethics of the nursing profession as well as tenants of corporate compliance. Megan, both you and the mother you were visiting should report this to the hospital. Send a letter of complaint to the Director of Nursing, the Corporate Compliance Department, and the CEO. NABA has received many reports of formula salespeople conducting contests to see which nurse can influence the most mothers to use formula. One contest was for the nurse who collected the most formula bottle caps. Nurses would go into each mother's room with a bottle of formula, whether or not the mother was formula feeding, open the bottle, pocket the cap, put her name on the cap and place it in a box to be counted at the end of the contest period. One wonders when this hospital relinquished its responsibility to the patient to deliver state of the art care and engage in evidence-based practice and accepted formula company reps as part of the health professional staff. No vendor should be allowed to use a health care professional as a company mouthpiece. So many nurses sell themselves for food and trinkets. Can you imagine if this same nurse went from room to room and said, "Breast is best." She would probably be fired! Yet a hospital allows its staff to advertise products that have known detrimental effects on the patients they are supposed to be caring for. 
 
You could always provide us with the address of this hospital. Maybe several hundred letters would alert them to the ethical breech that has occurred between nurse and patient.
 
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA
 
 
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