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From: "Molly Shakar RN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:50 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] competent LC's
Hi,
I have been following the post about competent LC's and find this post so
timely.
I am in private practice. I see many mothers after their discharge from the
hospital. I find it very frustrating when some of the LC's at a local
hospital are
not practicing evidence-based care. These IBCLC's were post partum nurses
that went to a week long class and then sat for their exam.
**Sitting the exam is okay (brings in money, hahaha), but when their
knowledge is so superficial, they shouldn't be able to pass! That's what I
just meant in my other post: if poorly educated people can pass the exam,
then something must be wrong with the exam, or else they would fail,
wouldn't they...? I also find it weird, to train for an exam... You
shouldn't train for an exam, you shouldn't even do a study for the exam. You
should do all that for the *knowledge*. The knowledge is the goal, not the
exam, not the diploma, not the shiny title, but only, merely, purely the
knowledge. Knowlegde and competencies are the goal, the diploma is just what
comes with it, not the other way around. It's doing a disservice to the
people that call on you in the future. It is why I postponed my exam one
year (after going through mourning and emptying my mother's house and moving
myself): I might just have passed it, but I would have felt very uneasy,
knowing there were so many topics I did not gain enough insight about. It's
a matter of honour, to intrinsically want your own credentials to stand for
something. Quality will show itself in the long(er) run, I truely believe
that. If only the money will last that long, to pay for all the
cerp-conferences and travelling... hahaha!
Kindly,
Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands
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