Educates obstetrical patients and their significant others in maternity services available, breastfeeding techniques, baby care, self-care and infant CPR.
Posted Sep 30
Unit and setting
Maternal Child Health department · Hospital Educates obstetrical patients and their significant others in maternity services availableobstetrical patients and significant others
License
RN license Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.Current Registered Professional Nurse license in New York State
Term
Permanent
Do you qualify?
License
Current Registered Professional Nurse license in New York StateCurrent license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.Check your license
Certification
Lactation consultant certification or active applicant for lactation consultant examLactation consultant certification or active applicant for lactation consultant exam.
Education
Graduate of an accredited School of NursingGraduate from an accredited School of Nursing.
Experience
3 years as a Staff Nurse in Maternal Child Health nursingMinimum of three (3) years experience as a Staff Nurse in Maternal Child Health nursing.
Experience
1 year concentrated post partum well baby care experience within the past 2 yearsOne (1) year concentrated experience in post partum well baby care, within the past 2 years.
Excellent communication skillsExcellent communication skills.
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Public speaking skillsPublic speaking skills.
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Ability to teach and counselAbility to teach and counsel.
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Good problem solving abilitiesGood problem solving abilities.
Preferred
Education
Bachelor's Degree in NursingBachelor's Degree in Nursing, preferred.
What it pays
Against similar roles
Top of New York PRN payNew York PRN postings that state pay run $32/hr to $77/hr, the middle half $40/hr to $61/hr, across 473 postings.
Pay reviews
Base pay set by location, specialty, service line, experience, education, credentials, contracts, budget and internal equity
Benefits
CEU Allowance
The role and schedule
Day to day
Conducts patient classes in post discharge instructions, breastfeeding, baby care, infant behavior, and infant CPRConducts patient classes in post discharge instructions, breastfeeding, baby care, infant behavior, and infant CPR.
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Develops daily class schedules with the Head NurseDevelops daily class schedules in conjunction with the Head Nurse.
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Distributes class schedules to patients and invites them to attendDistributes class schedules to patients and invites them to attend.
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Provides bedside consultation for breastfeeding mothersProvides bedside consultation for breastfeeding mothers.
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Reviews newborn screening specimen slips, logs specimens, and prepares them for mailingReviews newborn screening specimen slips, assures completeness of slips, logs specimens, and prepares for mailing.
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Informs prospective patients of maternity service routinesInforms prospective patients of Lenox Hill Hospital maternity service routines.
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Performs direct patient care when assigned by nursing managementPerforms direct patient care when assigned by nursing management.
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Participates in quality improvement projects and updates policies, procedures and standards as neededParticipates in quality improvement projects including continuing education presentations and data collection, updates policies, procedures and standards, as needed.
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Provides continuing education to all disciplines of caregiversProvides continuing education to all disciplines of Lenox Hill Hospital caregivers.
The workplaceFrom Medicare Care Compare, Sep 2026 · ANCC.
Educates obstetrical patients and their significant others in maternity services available, breastfeeding techniques, baby care, self-care and infant CPR. Provides continuing education to all disciplines of Lenox Hill Hospital caregivers.
Job Responsibility
Conducts patient classes in post discharge instructions, breastfeeding, baby care, infant behavior, and infant CPR. Develops daily class schedules in conjunction with the Head Nurse. Distributes class schedules to patients and invites them to attend.
Provides bedside consultation for breastfeeding mothers.
Reviews newborn screening specimen slips, assures completeness of slips, logs specimens, and prepares for mailing.
Conducts tours of Maternal Child Health department. Informs prospective patients of Lenox Hill Hospital maternity service routines.
Performs direct patient care when assigned by nursing management.
Participates in quality improvement projects including continuing education presentations and data collection, updates policies, procedures and standards, as needed.
Performs related duties as required.
ADA Essential Functions
Job Qualification
Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing. Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, preferred.
Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.
Minimum of three (3) years experience as a Staff Nurse in Maternal Child Health nursing. One (1) year concentrated experience in post partum well baby care, within the past 2 years.
Lactation consultant certification or active applicant for lactation consultant exam.
Excellent interpersonal skills. Excellent communication skills. Public speaking skills. Ability to teach and counsel. Good problem solving abilities.
Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Neighborhoods+Nurses and other young professionals commonly rent in Upper Manhattan—Washington Heights, Inwood, and Hamilton Heights—plus Astoria in Queens and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Bed-Stuy, where listed average rents run about $2,150–$3,000 versus a much higher Manhattan core. Washington Heights and Inwood sit on the Hudson with Dominican heritage, Art Deco stock, and roughly 30-minute trains to Midtown; Hamilton Heights’ A/D express from 125th Street reaches Columbus Circle in about 20 minutes. Astoria offers a livelier, still-cheaper street scene with East River access; Bay Ridge and Bayside feel more suburban; Sunset Park mixes 8th Avenue Chinatown and 5th Avenue Latin American life. If city rents still bite, Jersey City (PATH), Newark, Yonkers, Great Neck, Stamford, Bronxville, and Rye are the named 28–60 minute backups, with Hudson Valley Putnam/Dutchess towns under about 90 minutes to Grand Central.
Nurses and other young professionals commonly rent in Upper Manhattan—Washington Heights, Inwood, and Hamilton Heights—plus Astoria in Queens and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Bed-Stuy, where listed average rents run about $2,150–$3,000 versus a much higher Manhattan core. Washington Heights and Inwood sit on the Hudson with Dominican heritage, Art Deco stock, and roughly 30-minute trains to Midtown; Hamilton Heights’ A/D express from 125th Street reaches Columbus Circle in about 20 minutes.
Astoria offers a livelier, still-cheaper street scene with East River access; Bay Ridge and Bayside feel more suburban; Sunset Park mixes 8th Avenue Chinatown and 5th Avenue Latin American life. If city rents still bite, Jersey City (PATH), Newark, Yonkers, Great Neck, Stamford, Bronxville, and Rye are the named 28–60 minute backups, with Hudson Valley Putnam/Dutchess towns under about 90 minutes to Grand Central.
Getting around+Hospital-bound trips inside the city mostly run on the subway: the A/D express from 125th Street to Columbus Circle is about 20 minutes, Harlem’s 116th Street station is 20–25 minutes to Midtown West and about 35 minutes to Union Square, and Inwood is roughly 30 minutes to Rockefeller Center and Times Square. PATH and NJ Transit from Jersey City take 20–60 minutes depending on neighborhood and whether you feed Hoboken or Secaucus; Newark Penn, Broad Street, and Liberty stations average 20–30 minutes by rail (driving 40–45 minutes off-peak, 1–1.5+ hours in rush). Metro-North from Bronxville is about 28 minutes to Grand Central; Rye, Harrison, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck 30–40 minutes; Stamford and Norwalk about an hour; LIRR from Bayside under 30 minutes. Driving is slower and, as of January 5, 2025, congestion-priced; the Seastreak Ferry from Atlantic Highlands/Highlands reaches lower Manhattan in about 30 minutes ($720 for a 40-trip book). Locals treat the subway as the default and a car as optional inside the five boroughs.
Hospital-bound trips inside the city mostly run on the subway: the A/D express from 125th Street to Columbus Circle is about 20 minutes, Harlem’s 116th Street station is 20–25 minutes to Midtown West and about 35 minutes to Union Square, and Inwood is roughly 30 minutes to Rockefeller Center and Times Square. PATH and NJ Transit from Jersey City take 20–60 minutes depending on neighborhood and whether you feed Hoboken or Secaucus; Newark Penn, Broad Street, and Liberty stations average 20–30 minutes by rail (driving 40–45 minutes off-peak, 1–1.5+ hours in rush).
Metro-North from Bronxville is about 28 minutes to Grand Central; Rye, Harrison, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck 30–40 minutes; Stamford and Norwalk about an hour; LIRR from Bayside under 30 minutes. Driving is slower and, as of January 5, 2025, congestion-priced; the Seastreak Ferry from Atlantic Highlands/Highlands reaches lower Manhattan in about 30 minutes ($720 for a 40-trip book).
Locals treat the subway as the default and a car as optional inside the five boroughs.
Outdoors+Central Park’s 843 acres—zoo, carousel, Bethesda Fountain, reservoir, Wollman Rink pickleball and ice skating, sledding on Pilgrim Hill and Cedar Hill after six-plus inches of snow—function as the city’s default backyard. Prospect Park (summer concerts and festivals, zoo, rink, carousel) sits just north of Flatbush; Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Washington Square Park, the High Line, Little Island, and Governors Island are named local favorites. Riverbank State Park (28 acres atop a treatment plant) gives Hamilton Heights Hudson views; Inwood holds one of the city’s last natural forests; Sunset Park overlooks the Statue of Liberty and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Further out: Branch Brook Park in Newark, Calf Pasture Beach and the Sheffield Island Ferry in Norwalk, and Sandy Hook National Recreation Area near Red Bank. The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden are standard day trips; summer thunderstorms make an umbrella standard kit.
Central Park’s 843 acres—zoo, carousel, Bethesda Fountain, reservoir, Wollman Rink pickleball and ice skating, sledding on Pilgrim Hill and Cedar Hill after six-plus inches of snow—function as the city’s default backyard. Prospect Park (summer concerts and festivals, zoo, rink, carousel) sits just north of Flatbush; Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Washington Square Park, the High Line, Little Island, and Governors Island are named local favorites.
Riverbank State Park (28 acres atop a treatment plant) gives Hamilton Heights Hudson views; Inwood holds one of the city’s last natural forests; Sunset Park overlooks the Statue of Liberty and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Further out: Branch Brook Park in Newark, Calf Pasture Beach and the Sheffield Island Ferry in Norwalk, and Sandy Hook National Recreation Area near Red Bank.
The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden are standard day trips; summer thunderstorms make an umbrella standard kit.
New York is the rare U.S. city where a nurse can leave a 12-hour shift and still find bagels, Veselka’s 24-hour pierogi, or a Broadway understudy—density is the point. The tradeoff is cost and space: citywide rents run about $3,930 to over $5,000, so newcomers cluster in Washington Heights, Inwood, Hamilton Heights, Astoria, Sunset Park, Flatbush, or Bay Ridge, where $2,150–$3,000 buys pre-war walk-ups, Dominican and Caribbean streets, and 20–30 minute A/D, LIRR, or PATH rides toward Midtown hospitals. Skip the car inside the boroughs (congestion pricing started 2025); Jersey City, Newark, Bronxville, and Rye are 28–60 minute rail or Seastreak ferry backups. Central Park’s 843 acres, Prospect Park, the High Line, and Riverbank State Park are the backyard. Expect four sharp seasons, summer storms, tiny apartments, block-by-block safety, and a first-year neighborhood hop. Food, 24/7 transit, and 1,700 parks keep people; rent and noise push them out.
