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Registered Nurse
- Lactation Consultant

We have a new opening for a Registered Nurse
- Lactation Consultant at Nellis AFB in North Las Vegas, NV.

• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals in the provision of patient care.
• Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all established policies, procedures, and guidelines used in the facility.
• Perform physical exam and health assessments.
• Provide health promotions, counseling, and administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized care provided in coordination with other healthcare professionals.
• Accountable for meeting with all patients based on the unit to assess their needs and document form of feeding/risks/benefits.
• Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
• Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization.
• Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as needed.
• Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient care.
• Performs comprehensive lactation assessment of the mother and her infant within the hospital setting in accordance with the policy and guidelines of postpartum and newborn nursery care required for Government beneficiaries.
• Provides comprehensive care to the perinatal mother desiring to breastfeed.
• Assesses mothers and newborns for normal/abnormal anatomy to determine ability to breastfeed.
• Creates a social environment that promotes learning for staff and conducts bedside lactation rounds.
• Integrates cultural, psychosocial, nutritional, and pharmacological aspects of breastfeeding into lactation consultant practice.
• Acts as an advocate for breastfeeding in the community, workplace, and within the health care professions.
• Maintains comprehensive client records.
• Consults with mothers having breastfeeding difficulties.
• Participates appropriately in communication and decision-making activities within the Birthing Center and Pediatric Clinic.
• Appropriately refers breastfeeding mothers for breast pump rentals and provides lactation management services to all breastfeeding patients, both in-patient and out-patient.
• Possesses excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Conducts quality assurance programs to monitor the caliber of the lactation services provided.
• Effectively communicates and collaborates with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization. Effectively uses appropriate communication format in addressing professional issues.
• Uses excellent written communication skills to perform accurate documentation, both written and electronic, of all activity in accordance with requirements.
• Upon arrival receive inpatient report from charge nurse to review pts that need lactation consultation from deliveries during the night and if there were difficulties during the night with breastfeeding. Will also be reachable throughout the shift via assigned cell.
• Will lead the facility's Breastfeeding Task Force (including breastfeeding week).
• Will round on every inpatient breast mother at least once a shift and respond to staff and patient needs throughout the shift for lactation consultations.
• Acts as an advocate for breastfeeding in the Nellis AFB community, Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center, and its health care professions.
• Document in patient's comprehensive medical records electronic; to ensure continuity of care easily reviewed by providers and nursing staff. This will include both inpatient and outpatient record systems.
• Consults with mothers and infants having breastfeeding difficulties both inpatient and outpatient.
• Ensures patients receive a prescription from providers for breast pump reimbursement as needed.
• Conducts chart audits on inpatient and outpatient charts to monitor breastfeeding statistics. Will keep a running spreadsheet for tracking and report monthly to the Breastfeeding Task Force.

Monday
- Friday between the hours of 7:00am and 5:00pm, 9 hour shift to include a 1 hour lunch break. Not to exceed 40 hours per week.

No Holidays/Possible Weekends/No Call

Schedule Flexibility:
To accommodate duties such as staff meetings and teaching classes, daily start and end times are flexible and will be set with the approval of the Government supervisor.