If this gal needs hands-on hours, she has to work directly with the patient 
with the IBCLC watching and guiding, and will most definitely need some kind 
of liability insurance. If she does this as an LLL Leader, then she will 
have LLL liability insurance. I would strongly suggest she wear an LLL name 
tag and do something like hand out LLL meeting information with her name and 
phone on it before getting started with a mother so that it is all very 
clear to the patient,  If this gal only wants to observe, she will not be 
able to count these hours as BF consultancy hours. If she is an official 
hospital volunteer, and goes through your volunteer office, she may be 
covered by the hospital insurance. Depends on if volunteers are allowed 
patient contact in your hospital. If she is doing hands on direct care, she 
will need to do the hospital charting, with you also writing that you 
observed her, and keep separate written records for herself. If it were me 
doing the mentoring, I would expect the intern to do all written records 
just like if she were an IBCLC, including care plans, charting, etc. 
Otherwise  how is she going to learn about our standards of practice and 
code of ethics? Best to you both, Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC (LLL Leader) 

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