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Hourly Wage Estimate: $32.16 - $48.24 / hour

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RN Lactation Consultant PRN

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) RN Lactation Consultant PRN you want in your current role? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you – at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join North Suburban Medical Center which is a part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at North Suburban Medical Center!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The lactation consultant is a skilled member of the health care team who provides lactation consultation to patients via direct interactions and provides clinical support and care to all breastfeeding mothers. Promotes breastfeeding and assists with facilitating change within the clinical settings using evidence-based, practical, clinical management. The lactation consultant takes patient histories, performs breast and feeding evaluations, develops treatment plans, and makes appropriate referrals as indicated. Participates in the Mom Baby monthly staff Meetings. Works cohesively with NICU, Mom/Baby and Labor & Delivery staff to promote a consistent lactation program, both inpatient and outpatient services and ensure continuity of care for ongoing breastfeeding success. Job duties also may include but not be inclusive of: skin to skin, phone triage lactation services, and assisting customers who attend the Baby on the Weigh Club.

What qualifications you will need:

• Current licensure in the State of Colorado as a Registered Nurse, or current active multistate Registered Nurse license.

• Lactation certification from an approved training program.

• CLC certified.

• Graduated from Nursing School.

• Lactation certification from an approved training program.

• Must possess practical skills, clinical judgment and knowledge of the lactation field.

• Must have comprehensive practical experience working with breast feeding mothers and infants.

• One or more years of lactation, parent education experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Must possess extensive practical skills, clinical judgment and knowledge of the lactation field. Strong background in adult education, interpersonal skills, health professional education, developing, implementing and monitoring teaching activities. Excellent physical assessment and interviewing skills required. Must have current knowledge of various interventions and equipment used in supporting breast feeding mothers and infants.

For nearly 40 years, North Suburban Medical Center (https://northsuburban.com/) has served the north metro Denver community at its location in Thornton, Colorado with an unwavering dedication to quality and community. At North Suburban, you’ll find the strongest history of quality of any north Denver hospital, and that dedication to quality continues today. We provide labor and delivery services, award-winning emergency care, vital health screenings such as mammograms, cardiovascular care, cancer care, orthopedic care, robotic surgery, and of course, hospital care. North Suburban also provides advanced wound care and hyperbaric treatments and operates a neonatal intensive care unit for newborns in need.

For the children in our community, North Suburban is affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children and provides kid-friendly emergency room care, and has a dedicated pediatric hospital unit staffed by pediatric doctors and nurse. As an affiliate hospital of HealthONE and HCA Healthcare , North Suburban is part of an internationally known and highly-regarded system of hospitals founded on the mission to serve and deliver on our mission statement: Above all else, we are dedicated to the care and improvement of human life.

HCA Healthcare has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for ten consecutive years (2010-2019). In 2019, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN Lactation Consultant PRN opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.