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    ARMC Women's & Children's Center Lactation Consultant

    Alamance Regional Medical Center, United StatesOn-SiteFull-timePosted 3w ago
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    Job description

    Patient Care Support

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    The Lactation Consultant is a lactation coach, consultant, and teacher who works collaboratively with staff and providers within Women’s and Infant’s services to develop feeding plans for newborns. Working under close supervision, this role uses current lactation theories and research to develop holistic, evidence-based breast feeding support and feeding plans that address individual feeding issues. This role serves the following patient age categories: newborns, infants, adolescents, and adults.

    Essential Job Function:

    • Collaborates with other Women's and Infant's services professionals and care teams to develop evidence-based feeding plans using current lactation theories and research as well as the infant's nutritional requirements, while respecting the family's breast-feeding goals.
    • Conducts breast feeding assessments to initiate an implementation breast feeding plan with the support of hospital staff, evaluates the effectiveness of the plan, and revises the plan as necessary.
    • Provides lactation support and consultation services to breast feeding mothers / infants by physician or nurse referral.
    • Assists in developing, implementing, and evaluating patient education resources and programs in order to improve their effectiveness.
    • Supports with leading evidence-based breast-feeding classes and breast-feeding support groups.
    • Maintains a safe environment and responds appropriately to emergencies and safety hazards.
    • Performs other duties as assigned.

    Education:

    • Required: Associate degree
    • Preferred: Bachelor's Degree

    Experience:

    • Required: 1 year

    Licensure/Certification/Listing:

    • Required: Certification by International Board of Lactation Consultation Examiners (IBLCE)BLS (CPR)-American Red Cross or AHA Healthcare Provider.

    Work Shift :

    Days/Weekend Rotation (United States of America)

    On Call Required

    No

    FTE:

    0.9

    Job Type:

    Benefit Eligible (20-39) Hours/Week

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Magnet Designated Cone Health

    Exceptional People Providing Exceptional Care! Cone Health is a state of the art network of facilities providing patients access to the latest developments in medical care from their first moments of life through later years. Our network offers the most breakthrough treatments and technology available in healthcare today. As a teaching hospital, we offer employees the opportunity to become leaders in the industry and continued growth from their first day on. Extraordinary patient care is about being “high-touch” as well as “high-tech”. Community service and superior patient care are the cornerstones of our organization, a philosophy that is demonstrated by each and every one of our valued team members. We are proud to be the largest private, not-for-profit employer of choice in the Piedmont, NC area community!

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