Lactation Specialist

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Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover and Milford, as well as a stand‑alone Emergency Department in Smyrna and a hybrid Emergency Department and Urgent Care in Milton. We offer various practice settings throughout Kent and Sussex counties. Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
• Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision
• Disability and Life Insurance options
• On Site Child Care
• Educational Reimbursement
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Plus, an array of Voluntary Benefits to include Critical Care Coverage and more!

Location: Kent Campus Hospital

Status: Relief

Shift: Day/ Evening

Salary Range: 37.98 - 58.87 HOURLY

Provides professional nursing care and lactation services within Bayhealth. Professional nursing practices, requiring specialized knowledge judgement and skill are performed using the process in accordance with hospital policy, procedure and philosophy.

• Demonstrates the ability to collect relevant patient healthcare data. a. Prioritizes data collection activities as indicated by the patient's immediate condition. b. Collects data using appropriate assessment techniques and instruments. c. Appropriately documents collected data. d. Collects data using a systematic and on-going process.
• Demonstrates ability to analyze the data in determining patient needs. a. Assesses data to determine patient needs. b. Interacts with the patient, family and other members of the healthcare team. c. Prioritizes and documents in a manner that facilitates determining expected outcomes and developing a plan of care. d. Documents patient needs in the clinical record.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify individualized, expected outcomes for the patient. a. Outcomes are derived from patient needs. b. Outcomes are mutually formulated with the patient, family, and other health care providers, as appropriate. c. Outcomes are realistic, individualized, culturally appropriate, and age-specific. d. Outcomes are measurable and include a time element for attainment, if possible. e. Outcomes provide direction for continuity of care.
  
  f. Outcomes are documented in the clinical record.
• Demonstrates ability to develop a plan of care that prescribes specific interventions to attain expected outcomes. a. The plan of care is individualized by the RN to reflect the patient/family needs. b. The plan of care is developed by the RN collaboratively with the healthcare team and patient/family. c. The plan of care reflects current acute care nursing practice. d. The plan of care provides for continuity of care.
  
  e. The RN establishes the priorities of care. f. The plan of care is part of the clinical record.
• Demonstrates ability to implement interventions identified in the Plan of Care. a. Administer patient care interventions in a manner that minimizes complications and/or life‑threatening situations. b. Encourages the patient and family to participate in implementing the plan of care, based on their ability to participate and make decisions. c. Documents interventions in the clinical record.
• Demonstrates ability to evaluate the patient's progress toward attaining expected outcomes. a. Evaluation is systematic, ongoing and criterion‑based. b. The appropriate members of the healthcare team (pt/family/others, etc) are involved in the evaluation process, as indicated. c. Evaluation of patient outcomes occurs within an appropriate time frame after initiation of interventions. d. On‑going assessment data are used by the RN to revise the patient needs.
  
  e. Revisions in outcomes, and the plan of care are documented. f. Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions in relation to outcomes. g. Documents patient's response to interventions.
• Demonstrates the ability to systematically…