Lactation Educator RN
Santa Maria, CAJob$57.02–86.8/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Lactation Educator RN provides prenatal and postpartum education, assessment, and individualized support to help new parents meet lactation goals and promote infant nutrition. The role addresses feeding challenges, develops personalized feeding plans for infants ranging from normal newborns to complex neonates, and collaborates with healthcare providers. Care is delivered according to nursing procedures, policies, and Perinatal Services standards.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our 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.
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Performs nursing care according to Marian Regional Medical Center procedures, policies and Perinatal Services standards of care.
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Observes universal precautions.
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Uses current lactation theories and research to develop evidence-based feeding plans that address individual feeding issues while respecting the physician's and family's breastfeeding goals.
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Performs and documents initial and ongoing assessments of patients.
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Assesses the breastfeeding mother baby dyad, including the breast and infant oral characteristics, latch-on technique, milk intake and the estimate of milk production.
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Develop feeding plans for a range of infants from the normal newborn to the complex neonate.
Job Requirements
Required
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Recent minimum of three (3) years clinical experience in Mother & Baby Care
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Minimum of one year as a Lactation Consultant in an acute care setting
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Registered Nurse: CA RN License
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Basic Life Support - CPR, within 30 Days
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Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), within 30 Days
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International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
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Certified Lactation Counser (CLC)
Preferred
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Bachelors Of Science Nursing
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Experienced- two (2) or more years of Lactation Consultant experience in an acute care setting and outpatient clinical experience
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.
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Pay Range
$57.02 - $86.80 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 59,203 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$57.02–86.8/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,531 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr25,131 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $71.91/hr, is 13% above the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,395 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 59,203 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente286 open
- Health Advocates Network219 open
- Sutter Health166 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — more than three in four Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 29,125 postings).
- Education
- 4,191 of the 59,203 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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