Clinical Nurse Educator - Lactation Consultant at Nemours in Wilmington, Delaware

Job Description:

Nemours is seeking a Clinical 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 in Nursing required
• Active Delaware or compact license required
• Current American Heart Association BLS required
• Certified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) through the IBLCE
• One to three years of experience