Clinical Nurse Educator - Lactation Consultant - Educator Job at Nemours Foundation, Wilmington, NC

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  • Nemours Foundation
  • Wilmington, NC

Job Description

Clinical Nurse Educator - Lactation Consultant


Nemours is seeking a Nurse Educator, Lactation Consultant to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, DE. The Lactation Consultant (LC) is a certified registered nurse skilled in assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation to assist the breastfeeding mother-baby dyad with feeding and help the mother to achieve her individual goals. The LC functions as a member of the interprofessional health care team as a consultant, educator, and mentor to nurses, healthcare professionals, and patients and their families. The LC demonstrates behaviors that model the standards of behavior, core values and mission statement for the organization. Responsibilities: 1. Clinical Judgment: Provides advanced assessment and interpretation, implements nursing care plans and support, and evaluates outcomes for the breastfeeding population based on physician/nurse referrals for all breastfeeding or pumping issues. 2. Facilitator of Learning: Demonstrates clinical expertise while supporting the breastfeeding mother-baby dyad. Provides evidence-based education or teaching skills to direct care staff and families. 3. Collaboration: Focuses on multidisciplinary team building while providing breastfeeding resources and support. Promotes community outreach activities to share the benefits of breastfeeding. 4. Response to Diversity: Reviews alternative approaches and implements planned change to meet the breastfeeding mother's needs considering cultural, social, family, and system diversity. 5. Clinical Inquiry: Individualizes standards and guidelines for particular patient situations. Questions and/or evaluates current practice based on patients' responses, review of literature, research, and education/learning. Maintains the knowledge and skills needed to address questions arising in practice and improve patient care. 6. Systems Thinking: Develops, integrates, and applies a variety of strategies that are driven by the needs and strengths of the mother-baby dyad. Negotiates and navigates through the system on behalf of the patient and family; anticipates needs of the mother-baby dyad as they move through the healthcare system; utilizes untapped and alternative resources as necessary. 7. Advocacy/Moral Agency: Works on behalf of the patient, family, and community; advocates from the patient/family perspective. Supports colleagues in ethical and clinical issues; achieves mutuality within patient/professional relationships. 8. Caring Practices: Recognizes and tailors caring practices to the individuality of patient and family; has astute awareness and anticipates mother-baby dyad changes and needs; follows the families lead; promotes safety throughout mother and baby's transition along the health-care continuum. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree Active Delaware or compact license Current AHA Healthcare Provider (HCP) Certification required Certified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) through the IBLCE One to three years of experience

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