Katharine West (good to  see you back!) writes:
 
<<ILCA should have adopted this approach years ago.

I passed  my first and only IBCLE in 1988 and have practiced as a private
lactation  consultant before and since passing the exam. I have ALWAYS
maintained from  the beginning that the IBCLC functions as a license
regardless of how it is  named and ILCA should have called it (should do)
what it is: a national  License.

Way back (1993) when I inquired about the logic of mandatory  retesting
instead of regular renewal by CEs, because it seemed that the  certification
was functioning like a license, I was told that ILCA did not  want to issue
licenses because then IBCLCs "might get sued if they have a  license.">>

 
 
Just a quick note -- ILCA  is the professional organization; IBLCE is the 
credentialing body.    Everything that you wrote really pertains to IBLCE, not 
ILCA.  
 
And while I'm at it -- I'll make another plug for everyone joining ILCA as  
YOUR professional organization!!


Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, Wheaton IL
_www.lactationeducationconsultants.com_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/) 
"I  would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there 
isn't,  than live my life as though there isn't, and die to find out there 
is." -  Pascal

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