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) *********************************************** 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