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Fill human milk, donor milk, and formula feeding orders for patients in the NICU.

Prepares a variety of duties related to the daily operations of Human Milk/feeding room. These include:

• Checking in donor milk and mothers breastmilk into our electronic milk system
• Maintain adequate inventory or supplies to meet patient needs for milk preparation.
• Maintain sanitation and cleaning in the milk preparation room.
• Fill human milk and and/or donor milk feeding orders for patients- this can include specialized recipes that require attention to detail for accuracy, thawing and freezing milk, adding fortification to milk and drawing up a set volume for each infant.
• Removes damaged formula cans and outdated formula stock from inventory and disposes per facility guidelines.
• Uses correct technique to measure solids and liquids.
• Communicates with supervisor, patient care areas and RN’s regarding problems with feeding orders, human milk/formula storage, or administration.
• Transcribes feeding order information to prepared feeding labels.
• Covers, labels, and dates formula requiring refrigeration.
• Completes necessary paperwork for accurate quantities of expressed human milk and fortifiers to be used for preparation, inventory, billing and tracking.

Assists in training other employees in feeding preparation and proper handling techniques as needed.

Complete mandatory education outlined in the Milk Room Policy.

Perform other duties as delegated by nursing staff and unit management as needed in both routine and emergent situations.

One of the following:

• -Completion of a Fundamentals of Nursing course within ninety (90) days; or

• -Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA); or

• -Experience with direct patient care such as a medical assistant, nursing assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT), or surgical technician in the past three (3) years; or

• -Completion within the last three (3) years, or will complete within ninety (90) days, an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) training program; or

• -Nursing licensure candidate who was unsuccessful on the state licensure examinations in the past three (3) years; or

• -Completion of a nursing program outside the United States and is awaiting the licensure examination in this country.

Completion of an above qualifications pathway, including patient care experience or a supervised clinical log, within ninety (90) days is a condition of continued employment in this job classification.