Registered Nurse Lactation

As a Registered Nurse Lactation, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Serves as a clinical expert for lactation and breastfeeding. The Lactation Consultant provides in -depth, individual assistance for mothers and families experiencing special or complex circumstances associated with lactation and breastfeeding. The Lactation Consultant encourages the support of breastfeeding in the medical setting through patient consultation, staff education and implementation of optimal breastfeeding policies and procedures.

• Provides clinical expertise and care related to lactation, which includes use of the nursing process with mothers and infants that may be high or low risk, inpatient, outpatient or telephone consultations. 
• Provides supporting documentation. 
• Provides formal and informal teaching to parents and hospital staff. 
• Education provided in settings outside the medical center shall be in accordance with medical center policy. 
• Participates in improving care and practice to create a relationship focused patient care environment, which meets customer needs and includes delegation of activities related to lactation consistent with the position descriptions for patient care personnel, medical center policies, legal and regulatory requirements. 
• Identifies opportunities for performance improvement. 
• Enhance professional self-development and accept accountability for professional practice based on research, customer feedback and peer review. 
• Coordinates and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to promote and provide consistency of care delivery, maintains effective channels of communication within the department and across the medical center to promote relations and interactions. 
• All other duties as assigned.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• (IBCLC) International Board Certified Lactation Consultant must be obtained within 2 years of employment start date(RN) Registered Nurse
  
• Registered Nurse Diploma 
• No Travel Required 
• No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

Wesley Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

For more than 100 years, Wesley Healthcare has provided exceptional care to thousands of families in Wichita and throughout Kansas and Northern Oklahoma. Wesley Medical Center is a member of the Wesley Healthcare network within Greater Wichita and has been an HCA Healthcare hospital since 1985.

Our physicians treat more than 24,000 patients annually, making Wesley Medical Center the most preferred hospital in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Additionally, our obstetricians and childbirth staff deliver more than 6,000 babies each year, more than any hospital in a 13-state region.

Home to Wesley Children's Hospital, the region's first and Wichita's only children's hospital, we care for children in a unique space designed specially for kids and their families. And as a Level I Trauma Center and the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in Kansas, we are prepared to treat any medical emergency, any time of day.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse Lactation 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. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.