Dear Camille:







At our hospital, we have interpreted it as only a Lactation Consultant, Physician or Nurse Practitioner can document this.  I am a CLC & another CLC works at our hospital as well.  When we round on patients, we do document this but have a place in our electronic charting where the Lactation Consultant has to co-sign this charting.  I hope this helps.  I'm not sure if the LactNet thread will show the screen shots I am posting below of what our charting looks like but I will email them to you privately for you to see what it looks like.







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Sincerely,







Mindy Glenn, RN, CLC, CPST



NICU Discharge Planner/Educator



West Jefferson Medical Center



Office: (504) 349-2173



Pager: (504) 668-0362



Fax: (504) 349-6122







Date:    Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:26:51 -0500



From:    Camille Foretich <[log in to unmask]>



Subject: Joint Commission







I posted last week regarding the guidelines for documenting the reasons for not exclusively breastfeeding as in what is Joint Commission's definition of lactation consultant. Does anyone have an idea? Who is documenting this in your hospital? Thanks for giving me your input.







Previous post:



It states that documentation by physician/advanced practice nurse/physician assistant/certified nurse midwife/lactation consultant the







reason for not exclusively feeding breast milk during the entire hospitalization......







Does "lactation consultant" mean an IBCLC only or can it include a CLC or simply an RN working in the capacity of a lactation educator?  I appreciate your help in clarifying this.















Camille Foretich



Lactation Consultant/OB Educator



601-200-6947 office



cell 601-918-9640


















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