Picture Perfect: Finding the Clues, Getting the Answers, and Passing the IBLCE Exam
with Marie Biancuzzo, RN MS IBCLC
Did you know that 60% of the exam questions--100 out of 175--require recognition of clinical photos? Marie's Picture Perfect seminar will help you to decode pertinent visual information. By viewing more than 200 clinical images of breastfeeding dyads, you will learn to accurately recognize conditions that may appear on the exam. This course is offered the day after Marie Biancuzzo's Lactation Exam Review in these locations:
Credits: 5.2 L-CERPs and 5.2 contact hours
Goal
By viewing multiple clinical slides and working through real
case scenarios, participants will be able to employ clinical
strategies to help breastfed infants with conditions that often
are unrecognized, untreated, or treated incorrectly.
Objectives
- Recognize how subtle or unusual signs and symptoms can obscure the diagnosis of common clinical conditions in breastfed infants.
- Examine common conditions having signs or symptoms that mimic other common conditions in breastfed infants.
- Recognize typical signs and symptoms of uncommon conditions such as laryngomalacia, torticollis, and other conditions that often go unnoticed or untreated but interfere with the physiology of suckling.
- Generate strategies to help the breastfed infant with uncommon anatomical, metabolic, or neurological problems.
- Describe how emerging issues such as environmental contaminants and contemporary infectious diseases have implications for breastfed infants.
Who Should Attend?
Health care professionals practicing in various settings and disciplines will find this seminar helpful. It is best suited for professionals who have mastered the scientific evidence for breastfeeding and lactation management for individuals, families, and systems. Focus is on analysis, synthesis and evaluation of current practices and future directions.
E-mail info@breastfeedingoutlook.com or call 703-787-9894.
