This 50 hour professional lactation training provides you with the foundations, the clinical and communication skills needed to help nursing families. It includes Motivational Interviewing, how to best communicate with our clients for effective interactions.
This virtual, self-study course consists of half of the Detailed Content Outline that dictates the skills needed to become an IBCLC. It can serve as a stand-alone credential, part of the required 95 hours of lactation education needed to become an IBCLC or continuing lactation education.
This course uses an online learning system, Thinkific, and live Zoom Meetings. The participants will be covering 13 Sections of the detailed content outline and one assignment. Short quizzes follow each section. A final evaluation will finish this training.
The goal of the course is to be able to take the theoretical clinical knowledge and be able to apply these skills to the actual work with families.
This course has been approved for 50 L-CERPs and 50 Nursing Contact Hours including 5 hours of communication skills.
Cost: $599
Breakdown of Detailed Content Outline:
I + II: 6.5 CERPs
III: 11 CERPs
IV: 7 CERPs
V: 10 CERPs
VI: 11 CERPs
VII: 22 CERPs
Certification guarantees that the person has:
In order to maintain your LCE credential, you may choose any of these options within 5 years of your initial certification and subsequent recertification dates: