Nutrition Lab Technician

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Location Colorado Springs
Position Type Regular
Regular/Temporary Regular
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Job Overview

The Nutrition Lab Technician is responsible for assisting clinical professionals, such as Registered Nurses, Registered Dietitians, Nurse Practitioners and Physicians, in providing optimal nutritional care to hospitalized patients through accurate, safe, and timely handling, storage, preparation and distribution of formulas and/or human milk to patients and families. Additionally, provides basic education and guidance to both inpatient and outpatient families.

Additional Information

• Location/Dept: Colorado Springs Hospital
• Job Details: 0.675; 27 hours/week - eligible for benefits
• Shift: Two 10 hour shifts per week, one 7 hour shift per week. These shifts are generally 8 AM - 6:30 PM or 8:30 AM-7 PM (varies), and 10 AM-5:30 PM
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

• Retrieves, reviews, and verifies patient human milk and/or formula orders via EMR.
• Scans all human milk at various intervals to ensure accurate tracking and safe delivery.
• Ensures appropriate education to parents for proper labeling, transport, and storage of human milk.
• Provides milk expression education to mothers of inpatients, outpatients and by telephone.
• Receives and maintains donated human milk from the community for delivery to the Mother's Milk Bank of Colorado through designation as a human milk bank outreach and donation center.
• Tracks and maintains a breast pump rental/loan program for families and staff.
• Maintains an adequate inventory of formula lab supplies and formulas by performing daily inventory and stocking. Rotates formulas and supplies using FIFO (first in, first out).
• Assesses daily utilization of formulas and proactively alerts supervisor of concerns for surges in use of non-stock formulas, non-formulary formulas that could result in potential out of stock situations.
• Coordinates with RD's and Clinical Nutrition leadership on non-formulary formula orders to ensure compliance to hospital formulary where possible, to secure prior approval for use of non-formulary formulas, to ensure accuracy of ingredient calculations, and that adequate stock of non-formulary formula is available for duration of patient's admission.
• Accurately calculates ingredient components, and accurately measures all ingredient components for all formula mixtures, including routine double check of work partner's work.
• Utilizes nutrition knowledge of infant, pediatric and adult patient populations and formulas to appropriately reach out to RD's and medical care team to clarify physician orders for formula that may not be ordered correctly or may not be appropriate for the patient.
• Prepares human milk and/or formula according to provider orders using aseptic technique.
• Provide basic education to patients and families on formula mixing instructions where appropriate and under RD supervision.
• Delivers prepared human milk and/or formula to the designated locations in an accurate and timely manner.
• Utilizes critical thinking, communication, customer service and emotional intelligence to effectively triage formula and human milk lab calls and in person interactions.
• Communicates with supervisor, RD's, RNs, and care teams regarding concerns related to human milk and/or formula orders, mixing recipes, storage, and administration.
• Maintains a clean, sanitary, safe, and orderly formula/human milk lab, ensuring department standards are met and that all cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting activities of storage areas, preparation areas and equipment are conducted and documented in accordance with relevant policies and procedures and in compliance with federal, state and local health regulations.
• Receives expressed human milk from mothers who are dropping off. Records and maintains an accurate inventory of human milk stored in the lab.
• Communicates with care team through daily rounding to consider factors impacting feedings to be prepared.
• Accurately calculates ingredient components, and accurately measures all ingredient components for all human milk mixtures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma required. Associate Degree preferred.

• Experience : None required. Clinical experience or a lactation background strongly preferred

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience. Hourly Range: $17.57 to $26.35

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

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