RN Clinical Nurse II - Rex Lactation Services

About the role

The Registered Nurse – Lactation Consultant position at UNC Health REX is dedicated to serving as a Lactation Consultant. The ideal candidate must hold an active North Carolina RN license and be certified as a Lactation Consultant through the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Responsibilities

• Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards.
• Reports and is accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director for coordinating and delivering patient care using the nursing process in a hospital setting.
• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
• Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
• Affirms readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Affirms developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Evaluates care by identifying expected patient outcomes.
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
• Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
• Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
• Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Effectively uses communication systems.
• Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
• Affirms readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
• Bridges ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Requirements

• Holds an active North Carolina RN license.
• Is certified as a Lactation Consultant through the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.
• One (1) year of nursing experience.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
• If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.

Benefits

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.