RN Lactation Consultant - Labor Delivery / Mother Baby

POSITION SUMMARY:

To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by: Serving as an experienced RN who assumes the role practitioner, educator, consultant, patient advocate and researcher. The lactation consultant assists the breastfeeding mother to attain her individual goals by utilizing a collaborative practice model.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Quality/No Harm:

• Provides clinical support and education to the inpatient breastfeeding mothers as evidenced by documentation of assessments, interventions and patient teaching.
• Provides outpatient clinical management and support to breastfeeding mothers to include the rental and/or sale of necessary lactation equipment and supplies.
• Demonstrates effective and safe clinical practice as evidenced by Skills Fair demonstration, completion of yearly competency assessment and Age Specific Checklist.
• Demonstrates effective communication with other members of the Healthcare team and promote effective team functioning.
• Demonstrates dependability, reliability and flexibility.
• Provides at least one staff education program annually, two community education programs, and acts as a preceptor to new associates.
• Demonstrates leadership in nursing practice across the healthcare continuum.
• Documents to the plan of care as needed for continuum of care.

Customer Experience:

• Provides services to patients and families with sensitivity and respect for their needs, expectations, age, cultural and individual differences.
• Educates patients and family and documents education.
• Contributes to the patient experience as evidenced by positive patient satisfaction scores and HCAHPs scores for department/medical center and/or written compliments by patients/others as well as consistent performance of purposeful hourly rounding and bedside shift report.

Stewardship:

• Uses and cares for equipment and supplies economically.