Clinical Nurse Educator - Lactation Consultant

Nemours is seeking a Clinical Nurse Educator, Lactation Consultant, to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, DE.

The Clinical Nurse Educator, Lactation Consultant is a registered nurse who is also certified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).  This nurse leader is skilled in assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation to assist the breastfeeding mother-baby dyad with feeding and to help the mother to achieve her individual goals. This Clinical Nurse Educator functions as a member of the nursing professional development team and the interprofessional health care team as a consultant, educator, and mentor to nurses, healthcare professionals, and patients and their families.  The nurse in this position demonstrates behaviors that model the core values and mission statement for Nemours Children's Health.

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. 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. 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

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.