Clinical Skills Workshop -by Lactation Educational Resources

Come to learn from experienced lactation consultants the hands-on skills needed for lactation consultant practice. A must for aspiring lactation consultants, a great way to up-grade skills for experienced lactation consultants. Earn 12.5 CERPs and Nursing Contact Hours.

Clinical Skills Workshop
• Positioning and latch-on, baby-led, mother-led
• Test Weights
• Breast exam
• Shells, shields and other devices
• Breast pumps and hand expression
• Alternative feeding methods
• Paced bottle feeding
• Suck assessment
• And lots of case studies!

Vergie Hughes RN MS IBCLC FILCA – Program Director

Vergie Hughes has a long history of experience in Maternal Child Health including labor and delivery, post-partum and pediatrics, and for the past 25 years she has been involved in lactation management. Ms Hughes has a BSN from Pacific Lutheran University and a MS from Georgetown University. She has been a board certified lactation consultant since 1985. At Georgetown University Hospital she was the director of the Human Milk Bank, developed the National Capitol Lactation Center and The one week Lactation Consultant Training Program. This course has trained over 3,000 Lactation Consultants since its inception. She has been a private practice lactation consultant and business owner, operating her own lactation center, Washington’s Families First. Lactation Education Resources On-Line is her website, offering information to parents as well as training to professionals. Ms, Hughes has served on the board of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and has served on the IBLCE exam writing committee. Her first love is teaching and that is exemplified by the creativity of the courses she has developed. A series of courses “The In-patient Breastfeeding Specialist”, "The Out-patient Breastfeeding Specialist” and “The NICU Breastfeeding Specialist” are all designed to advance the lactation management skills of nurses at the bedside. She regularly teaches skills to labor and delivery nurses and developed the recent course “Towards Exclusive Breastfeeding”. Ms Hughes is the program director and content manager for all of the on-line Lactation Education Resources courses. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she currently she works for the Inova Health System in as a lactation consultant in the NICU at Inova Fairfax Hospital one day per week, and work-site lactation support for Inova HealthSource.