Lactation consultant vs student nurse

Differences between lactation consultant and student nurse duties and responsibilities

Lactation consultant example responsibilities.

• Manage communications with referral source, medical providers, injure worker and other parties involve in the rehabilitation process.
• Provide clinical lactation support, community breastfeeding education, and CPR instruction
• Work in outpatient breastfeeding center as IBCLC with occasional floating to inpatient lactation consulting.
• Provide guidance to birth mothers on proper positions and latch techniques to minimize potential complications.
• Implement and oversee a maternity services clinic focusing on prenatal education, lactation services, and breastfeeding.
• Perform nutrition assessment for participants by providing participants with information on healthy eating, nursing assistance, and healthy lifestyle choices.
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Student nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Experience in plastics, general, podiatry, ortho, gyn, GI and pain services
• Administer intravenous infusions, PO, IM, IVP, SubQ prescriptions and monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
• Provide competent nursing care within scope of practice on the Med-Surg, and ICU floor as a student nurse.
• Experience inserting IVs, total patient care, charting, and logging with SRHS computer system on multiple MED-SURG units.
• Provide general patient care ADL's, administering dressing changes, providing nurses notes, and other aide duties for patient.
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