Lactation Nurse Educator
Phoenix, Arizona
- Eligibility
- RNLactation Professional
Posted Sep 11
What the listing says
Role
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- In range for AZ staff roles
AZ staff postings that state pay run $24/hr to $59/hr, the middle half $38/hr to $52/hr, across 377 postings.
About this role
As an RN Lactation Professional, you will be a compassionate expert, empowering new parents to achieve their lactation goals and promoting optimal infant nutrition. Every day, you will provide evidence-based education, assessment, and individualized support prenatally and postpartum. You'll address feeding challenges, develop personalized care plans, and collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure integrated support. To be successful in this role, you will possess deep clinical knowledge, exceptional communication, empathy, and patience, adapting strategies to individual needs for successful infant feeding and improved health outcomes.
Sourced from CommonSpirit Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- Associate's Degree in Nursing
- Registered Nurse AZ
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP)
Benefits
- Health/dental/vision
- FSA
- Matching retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption assistance
Place
- City
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Median rent
- $1,582/mo
- Local household income
- $81,332/yr
- Metro price level
- 3% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Phoenix area index 103.3, where 100 is the national average.
Phoenix drops you into the Sonoran Desert — hike Camelback Mountain before a sunrise shift, eat your way down Roosevelt Row, and settle among Arcadia's grapefruit trees. Cost of living sits about 3% above the national average. Trade snow shovels for trail runners year-round and plug into a valley-wide hospital network hungry for bedside RNs.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
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- Can you walk me through differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
