Lactation Educator RN
Bryan, TXJob$27.36–40.7/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Lactation Educator RN provides prenatal and postpartum education, assessment, and individualized support to help parents meet lactation goals and promote infant nutrition. The role addresses feeding challenges, develops care plans, and collaborates with healthcare providers. The position also includes evaluating infant feeding mechanics and milk transfer, documenting consultations, supporting milk-handling quality policies, and assessing medication compatibility with breastfeeding.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a 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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Instructs mothers on all tasks necessary to initiate and maintain lactation during the infant’s hospitalization; may include prenatal instruction and post-discharge follow-up
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Evaluates breastfeeding oral motor mechanics of infants and milk transfer making appropriate recommendations and management strategies
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Documents observations, assessments and recommendations made during consultation in patient record
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Performs all tasks necessary to ensure the mother’s adherence to quality control departmental policies related to milk collection, storage and transport
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Obtains information on maternal medication use and evaluates its compatibility or prohibitive status related to breastfeeding or expressed breast milk feeding
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Attends continuing education Workshops, seminars and in-services and fulfills all mandatory education requirements as documented on staff development roster
Job Requirements
Required
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Associate Of Nursing Two year’s lactation experience, upon hire
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Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire
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Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
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Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire
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International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, upon hire
Where You'll Work
St. Joseph Health has been caring for the communities in and surrounding the Brazos Valley since 1936 (Bryan/College Station, Navasota, Caldwell, Madisonville (TX)). St. Joseph has a Level III Trauma Center, the first Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center and the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Brazos Valley.
St. Joseph Health is a leader in critical care and the largest provider of cardiovascular care in the region. As an integrated healthcare system St. Joseph Health includes a comprehensive network of over 100 employed providers including primary care physicians specialists and advanced practice clinicians. The network includes more than 30 ambulatory clinics featuring Primary Care, Express Clinics and Imaging and Diagnostic Services.
Pay Range
$27.36 - $40.70 /hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 58,203 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$27.36–40.7/hr
- Texas median$38–53/hr1,211 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr24,463 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $34.03/hr, is 25% below the Texas median midpoint ($46/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 4,513 open Registered Nurse jobs in Texas and 58,203 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- HCA Healthcare1,051 open
- Baylor Scott & White Health477 open
- Houston Methodist412 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (28,471 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 16,068 of the 58,203 open Registered Nurse jobs (28%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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