I think Elizabeth means the consent form which gives you mom's permission to touch her and the baby, as well as to share information with her HCP etc. I have never seen such a document, but in many of the LC books there are is information about these forms.
I suppose this is an American thing based on liability issues and am quite curious how the European consultants deal with these things.
Christina Yaneva
BF Peer Councellor
Bulgaria
--- On Wed, 7/7/10, gonneke van veldhuizen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: gonneke van veldhuizen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: consultations via Skype
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 10:27 AM
> Ofcourse a Skyped consut is a consult
> and should be carried out and charted (and billed) as any.
> But I don;t understand the ''consent to consult''. If a mom
> calls/emails me in order to schedule a consult does she not
> implicitly consent to consult me? Why would she make the
> appointment otherwise? Or are you talking consent like to
> use the contents of the consult or any viewable materials
> for use of research or education? It would be easy enough to
> send those forms afterwards for her to return signed. And
> how is this different fom working via telephone or email
> consultation as many of us are doing regularly already?
> Just wondering here if this is a cultural thing.
>
> Warmly,
> Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LClecturer taking a
> reading-twilight-saga-summer vacation for a couple of days
> with just the bare minimum of LC work in southern
> Netherlands
>
> --- On Tue, 7/6/10, Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> From: Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [LACTNET] consultations via Skype
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 1:07 PM
>
> Cathy Genna shares with us the marvels of a consult over
> cyberspace. If any
> others are thinking of venturing into this medium, I offer
> a gentle reminder
> that any non-face-to-face consultation still has to operate
> under the
> "rules" of a traditional visit. So -- you need a consent
> to consult, and
> you need to chart, and you may need to communicate with
> other health care
> providers about the visit. A private practitioner should
> be compensated for
> the time -- altho LCinPPs have lots of business-savvy ways
> to handle
> compensation for follow-up and care plan tweaks.
>
> How do you get a "signed" consent over Skype? Go for
> verbal when you are on
> the camera, and add a note to the file. "Mom--see this
> piece of paper in my
> hand? It is the consent form I would customarily have you
> sign if we were
> face-to-face. Let me read it to you [and yes, you have to
> read it to
> her]. Mom, do you agree with everything in this
> form?" When she answers
> "Yes," *you* write on the consent form: "After IBCLC
> orally read this form,
> verbal consent was given by [client name] during our Skype
> consult of 20
> April 2010" [or whenever]. If you are really clever, you
> will e-mail the
> form to her before your scheduled Skype time. When you
> see each other on
> camera, you'll say "Mom, did you read, and do you agree
> with, the consent
> form I sent you?" When she says "Yes" you'll write
> something like "Mom
> received consent form by e-mail prior to our Skype
> consult. She reports
> during our 20 April 2010 Skype consult that she received,
> read and agrees
> with the consent form."
>
> Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
> Wyndmoor, PA, USA
>
>
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