Dear Marsha, I firmly agree with you. ILCA should be the ones writing the
standards of practice for its members, IBCLCs.  That is our organization.
IBLCE is the testing organization.  I do believe that ILCA should be the
ones to develop and publish our professional IBCLC Standards of Practice.

Kathleen



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Date:    Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:54:53 EST
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Subject: Scope of Practice

I think that many of the allied health professions derive their scope of
practice from the licensing entity, which in the US is the state. Because we
have no LC licensure here I think the responsibility for creating both the
scope  
and standards falls to ILCA, the professional association. I looked in my
old 
 files from when I served on the ILCA board of directors and I believe we
wrote a  document that contained both a scope and standards, then combined
the 
two into  what is ILCA's current Standards of Practice today. I do not think
that IBLCE  should be defining the scope of IBCLC practice, nor creating a
new 
lesser  credential and defining that one's scope too. Taking the current
scope 
off  the website does not remove us from the  legal and professional bind
that  
we are in. IBLCE may even be exceeding their "scope" of what they can do
according to the NCCA standards for certifying agencies. We are not yet out
of  
the woods on this one.
 
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA

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