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Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review, Third Edition

Author(s): Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC, Director, Bright Future Lactation Resource Centre, Dayton, Ohio
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763776169
  • Paperback    328 pages      © 2011
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Overview

Consistent with the direction of the IBLCE exam board, the Third Edition of Linda Smith’s highly successful Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review is now organized around the chronological stages of the mother-baby dyad’s development. With over 800 questions and over 30 new clinical pictures, the Third Edition encourages an in-depth exploration of each stage of the mother-baby dyad’s development, and poses questions that are often unique to that particular stage. It contains two complete Practice Exams and presents thirteen actual Clinical Case Studies, each asking several questions about the case. This review guide is perfect for beginning lactation consultants and those re-certifying, as well as dietitians, childbirth educators, nurses, and breastfeeding counselors!

New Key Features:
• Information organized by Chronological Stages
• Over 100 additional questions and over 30 new clinical pictures
• Practice Exams that follow the 2010 IBLCE exam format by having 175 multiple-choice questions, of which, 100 questions have clinical pictures 

 

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Dedication  
About the Author  
Acknowledgments  
Introduction to the Third Edition  
Preparing for the Exam  
Part 1  Clinical Exercises
Part 2  Clinical Case Studies with questions
Part 3  Practice questions by Chronological Period
Part 4  Practice Exams A and B
Resources  
Appendix  
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC-Director, Bright Future Lactation Resource Centre, Dayton, Ohio

Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC, is an internationally known author, teacher and lecturer, and proud grandmother. She is the author of 4 lactation text books and has contributed chapters to three other texts. A lactation consultant in private practice, she was a founder of IBLCE, founder and past board member of ILCA, and currently serves on the United States Breastfeeding Committee.

Linda owns and operates the Bright Future Lactation Resource Centre in Dayton, OH, whose mission is "Supporting the People who Support Breastfeeding" with lactation education programs, consulting services, and educational and promotional resources. For more information on the Centre, please visit http://www.bflrc.com

Linda’s Lactation Consultant Exam Preparation Course is the longest-running of its kind and the first to be based on the IBLCE Exam Blueprint. She has lectured to and/or consulted with health professional audiences in the USA, Canada, Malaysia, Korea, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

 

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