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The clinical hours you need to become an IBCLC without being a healthcare professional
The clinical hours you need to become an IBCLC without being a healthcare professional
Struggling to find an approved way to get your hours?
Meet the IBCLC exam’s clinical hours requirement by supporting families in your own community
The LER HOURS (Hands On Understanding and Resources for Success) program is a way for those without a healthcare background or a current peer support position to earn the clinical hours they need to sit the IBCLC exam.
As an HOURS participant, you can support lactating families in your own community, while LER provides the tools and expert mentoring you need to succeed.
Because IBLCE recognizes the HOURS program, you can rest assured that your hours completed during this program will “count.”
LER provides the support you need while you complete your clinical hours
Tools
Tracking Tool: Track your hours, automatically calculate remaining hours, and categorize your cases by exam content area.
Practice Protocols: Guiding documents for your lactation practice
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Mentorship
At-your-fingertips access to LER’s staff of experienced IBCLCs & CBSs.
Discuss cases, ask questions, receive feedback and support.
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Community
Connect with others in the program via a Facebook group just for you.
Give and get encouragement and advice.
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- Q. What is the LER HOURS program?
A. The LER HOURS program is designed for Pathway 1 IBCLC exam candidates who are not recognized health professionals to meet the exam’s 1,000 clinical hours requirement. Participants assist lactating families in their own communities, and their hours are endorsed through LER HOURS, an IBLCE-approved breastfeeding support organization. LER HOURS also helps participants track and document their hours and provides mentorship and support. Apply Now
- Q. Who is eligible for the LER HOURS program?
A. To apply to join LER HOURS, you must have already earned your Certified Breastfeeding Specialist (CBS) designation through LER and be a CBS in good standing. Apply Now
- Q. What does the LER HOURS program application entail?
A. Applicants complete 3 online case studies (including multiple choice and free text questions) covering a range of lactation support situations. This is an open-resource task, and you will be required to provide references for the resources you use. Our staff will evaluate your case study responses, and you may be asked to revise them or do additional case studies. Once your case studies are approved, you will be accepted into the LER HOURS program. Apply Now
- Q. How do I find families to support?
A. As a participant in the HOURS program, it is your responsibility to identify families to support in your community. While LER does not directly connect you to families in need of support, LER will provide you with strategies for locating families and offering your services.
75 CERP Recertification Bundle
Lactation Education Resources offers an easy, user-friendly, inexpensive way to earn contact hours for nurses and CERPs for recertification as a lactation consultant.
IBCLCs recertifying in 2022: This single bundle provides the CERPs you need, regardless of the results of your IBLCE CE Self Assessment. It includes at least 7 CERPs in each IBLCE Detailed Content Outline (DOC) area. (Need more information on recertifying by CERPs? Our blog offers a step-by-step guide.
View the webcast video lessons, do the online activities, and then take the online post test. All of our online training courses provide 1 year of access. The complete program will take about 75 hours to finish. Once all of the lessons within this program have been completed you will be able to print your certificate. It couldn't be easier!
- Credits:
- 70 L-CERPs
- 5 E-CERPs
- 75 Nursing Contact Hours
- Webcast Powerpoint Presentation (ranging from 1 to 2 hours)
- Bibliography
- Course Evaluation
Need less than 75 CERPs? Click to view other bundles.
Buy Now $849.00 USD when bundled $998.00 when purchased separately
Courses Included:
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Clinical Skills
- Annual Update 2020
- When Breastfeeding Fails
- Facilitators and Barriers to Initiation of Lactation Part I and Part II
- BreaSteps: Breastfeeding the Premature Infant Section I
- Politics of Breastfeeding Part I: Alternative Milks and Ulterior Motives
- Infant Feeding in Disasters
- Clinical Skills Workshop Video
- Mentoring the Next Generation
- Translating the Science of Breastfeeding
- Ethical Considerations in Lactation Consulting
- Insights into Ethical Practice and IBCLC's Responsibilities
- Legal and Ethical Concerns for the Lactation Consultant
- Controversies in Breastfeeding Promotion and Principles
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Development and Nutrition
- Nutrition for the Breastfeeding Mother
- Infant Assessment, Growth and Development Part I and II
- Breastfeeding Late Preterm & Early Term Infants
- BreaSteps: Breastfeeding the Premature Infant Section I
- Human Milk Composition
- Allergies and the Breastfed Infant
- Plastic Surgery Procedures and Lactation
- Human Milk Banking
- Anatomy of a Consult
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Pathology
- Breastfeeding the Medically Challenged Infant
- BreaSteps: Breastfeeding the Premature Infant Section I & II
- Allergies and the Breastfed Infant
- Grand Rounds: Oversupply and Mastitis
- Jaundice and Human Milk Feeding
- Obesity and Lactation
- Anatomy of a Consult
- WHO Says What? Global Evidence and Infant Feeding Recommendations for Families Living with HIV
- Comprehensive Review of Infant Suck Section I, Section II & Section III
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Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Facilitators and Barriers to Initiation of Lactation Part I and Part II
- Use of Herbals and Galactogogues During Lactation
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Physiology and Endocrinology
- Nutrition for the Breastfeeding Mother
- Facilitators and Barriers to Initiation of Lactation Part I and Part II
- BreaSteps: Breastfeeding the Premature Infant Section I & II
- Breastfeeding Multiples
- Obesity and Lactation
- Relactation and Induced Lactation
- Anatomy of a Consult
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Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology
- Domestic Violence and Lactation
- Infant Sleep and Feeding
- Impact of Culture in Lactation Support
- Partners and Breastfeeding
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Techniques
- Assuring Breastfeeding Success
- BreaSteps: Breastfeeding the Premature Infant Section I & II
- Essentials of Positioning
- Initiating Breastfeeding - A Biological Perspective
- Comprehensive Review of Infant Suck Section I, Section II, & Section III
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Share Your CBS Certification
LER invites students who have earned the Certified Breastfeeding Specialist (CBS) certificate to download and use our CBS logo.
The CBS logo on your business cards, social media, website, and other materials signals to families that you possess exemplary training to support them through pregnancy, breastfeeding initiation, and the normal course of lactation.
By downloading the logo, you are attesting that you hold a valid, unexpired CBS certification and are in good standing. Find our marketing policy here. If your CBS is about to expire, visit here for information on renewal.
