Infant Feeding Management Tech/Nurse Assistant I, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Full-time Days

Infant Feeding Management Tech/Nurse Assistant I, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Full-time Days, Winston-Salem

JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for the intake, management, and preparation of breast milk feedings adhering to all sanitary regulations and standards established by regulating agencies and health care facility. Maintains feeding orders, ensures proper storage of milk including temperature logs, maintains adequate supplies related to breast milk and formula feedings, operates all equipment needed to prepare breast milk and maintains sanitation in the nutrition room and preparation areas. Additionally, interacts with the Lactation Consultant, dietitians, parents and ancillary staff to ensure compliance with current and new standards related to breast milk feedings. This position does not engage in direct patient care.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: High school diploma and successful completion of Nursing Assistant Program. 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: Nurse Assistant I certification and Infant and Adult CPR certifications required. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Utilizes therapeutic communication skills to promote a cooperative work environment, develop interpersonal relationships, address conflict appropriately, and facilitate team building keeping the patient as the central focus and using family centered care principles. Utilizes listening and sensitivity. 2. Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional environment through Shared Governance participation, adherence to standards, participation in peer review and acceptance of accountabilities. Participates in orientation of new staff and acts as a resource to others. 3. Maintains a safe and therapeutic environment through strict adherence to standards, policies, and procedures for transport, storage, management and preparation of breast milk following infection control principles. 4. Promotes customer satisfaction through responsive, non-judgmental, respectful, and professional behaviors. Serves as a patient advocate in all interactions maintaining privacy and confidentiality. 5. Prepares and delivers infant breast milk as ordered using correct techniques to measure liquids including amounts needed over 24 hour period with minimal waste and appropriate double checks when needed. 6. Inventories and maintains sufficient nutrition room stock ensuring expired stock is removed and keeping appropriate records both written and computerized. 7. Takes personal responsibility for professional growth and development keeping abreast of new standards and information. Maintains competence by demonstrating self-direction for continuing education and renewal of Nurse Assistant registry listing. 8. Participates in identification of issues and quality improvement. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: Strong oral and written communication skills Ability to mix and prepare feedings Ability to do mathematical calculations Ability to work collaboratively 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Subject to moderate stressful conditions Subject to some interruptions Required to wear PPE 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 0% 35% 65% to to to 35% 65% 100% N/A Activity X Standing X Walking X Sitting X Bending X Reaching with arms X Finger and hand dexterity X Talking X Hearing X Seeing Lifting, carrying, pushing and or pulling: X 20 lbs. maximum X 50 lbs. maximum X 100 lbs. maximum

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

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