Lactation Consultant (RN) - Lactation Services - Days

About the role

This position integrates technical skills and theoretical knowledge to meet patient and family needs. It involves assisting the healthcare team in preventing illness and injury, maintaining wellness, and providing comfort. The role provides direction, education, and begins to develop leadership skills at the unit level. It delivers and accurately documents direct, age-specific care based on medical orders and an integrated, multidisciplinary plan of care. It also safely administers prescribed medications, identifying incompatibilities and/or interactions.

Responsibilities

• Assists the healthcare team in preventing illness and injury, maintaining wellness, and providing comfort.
• Mobilizes resources to meet the individualized needs of patients/families.
• Delivers and accurately documents direct, age-specific care to a patient or group of patients based on medical orders and an integrated, multidisciplinary plan of care.
• Safely administers prescribed medications, identifying incompatibilities and/or interactions.

Requirements

• Licensure, Certification, or Registration: Current RN licensure in Virginia or eligible/compact state.
• Experience: Clin I: N/A, Clin II: 12 to 24 months RN experience, Clin III: 3 years of clinical experience.
• Education: Diploma or Associates Degree from a professional nursing program recognized and/or approved by the corresponding state’s Board of Nursing. All registered nurses without a Bachelor's degree in Nursing (or higher) will be required to enroll in an approved RN to BSN program within two years of their start date and to complete the program within five years of their start date unless grandfathered under previous requirements.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Organizes work and delegates and supervises others (RN's, LPN's, Care Partners, Unit Secretaries, etc.) in carrying out assignments.

Qualifications

• Licensure, Certification, or Registration: Current RN licensure in Virginia, AHA BLS HCP Certification or equivalent.
• Education: Completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (or higher) from an accredited program.
• Experience: Clin I: Experience as an LPN, nursing assistant or care partner in either an acute care setting or as applicable to area of practice; Clin II, Clin III: Academic Health Care Experience; Experience with similar patient population in either an acute care setting or as applicable to area of practice.

Skills

• Strong recall, reasoning, problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities, frequent and intense customer interactions, fast pace environment, steady pace.
• Logical thinking, hearing, speaking clearly, writing legibly, reading, emotional stability.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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