I work for a Children's Hospital & am in the process of getting the process
of running the Lactation position for the hospital.  The hospital is
wanting to know if I will be willing to do home visits & set up a program
to do this (is fine with me)  What I forgot to mention in my last post was
at this hospital there is no newborn nursery or Neonatal ICU.  We only have
a Pediatric ICU, which does take newborns though.  So I am typically not
dealing with a brand new baby.

I know I posted this information recently, but I have done a search & have
been unable to come up with any results that I am looking for.  I have a
meeting on July 3rd with the director to start writing a proposal for this
position.  As currently there is no lactation consultant in the hospital
and the hospital has not had the budget for one previously.  I fell into
this as I am a staff nurse at the hospital already in their Emergency Room
(one of the top 2 busiest Children's emergency rooms in the U.S.) and they
are creating this position for me.

When I write the proposal it will then be passed to the higher ups at the
hospital for budget approval.  I am trying to get more information on how a
program is set up & run if possible.  Primarily I would be following cases
where the mom is having a hard time keeping her supply or getting the baby
back to breast after a big surgery or the child has a disorder that makes
it harder for them to suck & swallow feeds.  This is my guess now as to
what I will be dealing with from what I see in the E.R.  The majority of
the patients in the hospital are on medicaid also.

Thank you to Pat & Rosellina for your information!  Any other information
would be greatly appreciated!  I am trying to put together a really good
proposal that the higher ups just possibly can't refuse.  ;-)

Denise

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