The Lactation Consultant's Clinical Practice Manual: A practical guide to establishing a lactation practice.

  • The Lactation Consultant in Practice
    • Practice Issues
    • Before you begin
    • Continuing your education
    • Scope of practice
    • Setting practice guidelines
    • Legal issues in practice
    • Practice options
      • Physician's office
      • Hospital based practice
      • Private practice
      • Collaborative lactation practice
    • Proposals
    • Contracts
    • Public relations
  • Managing An Office
    • Setting up the office
    • Housekeeping
    • Record keeping
    • Taxes
    • Billing for lactation services
  • The Lactation Consultation
    • Office visits
    • Return consultation
    • Suckling assessment
    • Oral Assessment Components
      • Oral motor function
      • Oral-Motor Dysfunction/Disorganization
    • Examination of the breasts
      • Insufficient Glandular Development of the Breast
      • Breast Surgery
      • Breast Pain
      • Milk Ejection Reflex
    • Breastfeeding observation
    • Assessment of Feeding Components
    • Documentation
    • Telephone Contacts
    • Calls to the Medical Provider
    • Giving instructions to adults
  • Policies for Lactation Consultant Practice
    • Billing
    • Birth control for the lactating woman
    • Breast creams
    • Charting
    • Communicable illness
    • Devices: breast pumps
    • Devices: breast shells
    • Devices: nipple shields
    • Devices, feeding tube
    • Diet: maternal breastfeeding
    • Employee health
    • Fee schedule
    • Jaundice, normal newborn
    • Maternal illness
    • Medications
    • Non-nurser: galactostasis
    • Provider contact
    • Substance abuse
    • Supplements
  • Protocols for Lactation Consultant Practice
    • Standard rationale in lactation practice
    • Breast abscess
    • Breast lumps
    • Engorgement
    • Failure to thrive
    • Fussy baby / colic
    • Hospital rounds
    • Latch-on techniques
    • Low milk supply
    • Mastitis
    • Milk collection and storage
    • Nipple thrush / oral thrush
    • Oral-motor dysfunction (O.M.D.)
    • Oversupply (overactive let-down) syndrome
    • Plugged duct(s)
    • Pre-term infants
    • Sleepy baby
    • Slow weight gain/dehydration
    • Sore nipples
    • Weaning
    • Weight checks
    • Working and nursing
      • Professional Guidelines
      • Business Forms
        • Proposal for On Staff Lactation Consultant
        • Job description for lactation consultant
        • Contract for Physician
        • Office
        • Letter to the medical provider
        • Lactation clinic supplies
        • Income Spreadsheet
        • Expenses spreadsheet
        • Cash paid out receipt
        • Receipts envelope
        • Vehicle Expense Record
        • Superbill
        • Diagnosis codes
        • Evaluation and management (EM) codes
      • Reference Charts
        • Physical assessment guide
        • Palate Types
        • Perinatal medications
        • Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
        • Conversion Tables
        • Conversion of pounds and ounces to kilograms
        • Weight loss tables
        • Required intake tables
        • Breastmilk requirements table
        • Calorie requirements table
        • Charting and Documentation Forms
        • Information (Intake) Form
        • Consent to photograph
        • Consent for treatment
        • Consent for nipple shield
        • Initial visit
        • Return visit
        • Assessment tool Oversupply (Overactive Let-down) syndrome
        • Prenatal profile
        • Pre-adoption/induced lactation consultation
        • Telephone conference record
      • Client instructions
        • Clinic Instructions
        • OSS Treatment
        • Cabbage Cure
        • Intake and Output Record
        • Pumping and breastmilk storage guide
        • Thrush self-care instructions
        • Introducing a bottle
        • Plugged ducts/Mastitis/Abscess
      • Appendix
        • A - Additional Supporting Documentation
        • B - Glossary
        • C - Additional references