I had a friend/co-worker at a hospital several years ago who was first a Registered Dietician, then became an RN, then became an IBCLC. A position was created and she became the first staff LC for that small community hospital's small ob/gyn unit, but she frequently got pulled from BF to other pt care: L&D, scrub for a C/S, post-op GYN pts, nursery, pp moms.... she was so well-rounded that she didn't get to do alot of BF rounds!! I moved across the country right after she became certified and I don't know if the LC "dept" at that hospital has since expanded, but back then I know it was frustrating for her to be a few specific pts' "nurse" when she was supposed to be helping all the moms & babies nurse! >The good thing about having non-RN IBCLCs in hospitals is that >administration can not pull this person to do nursing work instead of >breastfeeding. We had a great RN IBCLC here and she was constantly pulled >to do nursing work and could never get to the BF patients or had to > cancel outpatient appointments. She quit and has now been replaced twice >by non-IBCLCs (not even on track to take the exam). >Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html