Eleni Hartas
Summary
Developed skills in nutrition and lactation support in the healthcare setting. Strong analytical abilities and effective communication with diverse teams.
Seeking to transition into new field where these skills can contribute to organizational success, and optimal patient care.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Clinical Nutrition Technician
Nemours Children's Health
02.2023 - Current
- Reconcile all breast milk and formula orders with physician/ dietitian/ nurse. When necessary, clarify all orders prior to preparation if needed.
- Maintain sterile technique during formula and breast milk preparation by adhering to infection prevention including handwashing before preparation, donning or changing PPE; cleaning and sanitize work area at start and end of shift – in additional to as needed.
- Able to read, write and perform necessary mathematical skills to correctly prepare formula and breast milk orders.
- Ensure all aspects are coordinated and completed in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.
- Follows processes, as established for quality assurance monitoring.
- Ensure compliance with all federal, state, local regulations as well as hospital policies and procedures (e.g., Health Department, HIPAA/Privacy Act, Joint Commission, OSHA/ Safety, operations, and personnel).
- Monthly cleaning and inspections
- Oversight all activities associated with preparation and delivery of human milk and formula.
- Maintain inventories by restocking and ordering.
- Strong communication skills are required. Is prepared to interact with both internal and external healthcare providers and respond appropriately.
- Maintain and perform repairs and troubleshoot equipment's.
- Aligning the department's strategic process management
- Driving and educating changes
- Lead will oversee and lead team in various systems and equipment's.
- Ability to effectively delegate tasks to technicians to meet goal(s).
- Ability to develop and motivate a team
- Assist with planning, maintaining, record keeping, making work assignments for preventive maintenance.
- Ensure team's productivity, quality of work and adherence to safety standards.
- Process auditor will ensure the proper execution of processes and compliance with all established process requirements.
- Individual role and responsibility will change depending on departmental needed.
Nanny
Care.com
09.2022 - 09.2024
- Child care
- Meal preparation
- Change/Bathe
- Active learning
Nanny
Care.com
09.2019 - 09.2022
- Infant care
- Meal preparation
- Multiples - 3 kids
- Change/Bathe
- Active learning
- Transportation
- Homework help
- Laundry
Food Service Volunteer
Wallingford School District
04.2022 - 05.2022
- Servsafe
- Cleaning kitchen / utensils
- Operate kitchen equipment
- Prep food
- Serve food
- Restock service stations
- Safety and sanitation guidelines
Waitress
Gatsby's Bar & Grille
03.2018 - 03.2019
- Servsafe training
- Customer service
- Cleaning
- Counting bank
- Handling food
Manager
Ritas Italian Water Ice
02.2014 - 08.2017
- Open and closing procedures
- Coordinate operations of facility
- Deliver service
- Organize shifts / supervise employee
- Support customer satisfaction
- Review product quality
- Food preparation
- Food safety
Education
Certificate - Human Lactation
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA12-2024
Bachelor of Science - Nutritional Sciences with an Emphasis in Dietetics
University of Arizona
12.2022
Associates of Arts - Psychology
Delaware County Community College
01.2019
Skills
- Staff training and development
- Reliability and trustworthiness
- Compliance standards
- Strong multitasking
- Excellent communication
- Problem-solving
- Staff management
- Effective team leader
- Sanitation practices
- Task delegation
- Schedule management
- Documentation and reporting
- Emotionally supportive
- Active listener
Clinical Experience
Drexel University/Jefferson Health - Obtained Lactation specific clinical experience
Clinical Competencies
- Obtained parents permission to provide care to their infant/child
- Appropriate counseling skills and techniques such as active listening, body language, tone of voice, conflict resolution
- Integrate cultural, psychosocial and nutrition aspects of breastfeeding
- Ascertain parents' short term and long term goals for breastfeeding
- Effective counseling skills
- Provide support and encouragement to enable parents to successful meet breastfeeding goals
- Apply principles of family-centered care while maintaining a collaborative supportive relationship with breastfeeding families
- Ability to select appropriate teaching aids
- Provide information at a level which patients can easily understand
- Provide support and information to patients to make evidence-informed decisions
- Provide evidence-based information
- Make appropriate referrals to other healthcare providers and community support resources.
- Provide written assessments
- Obtain lactation history
- Breast examination
- Identify correct latch and attachment
- Assess effective milk transfer/adequate milk intake of the infant/child
- Assess infant oral anatomy
- Assess milk supply
- Assess normal neurological responses and reflexes
- Prenatal breastfeeding class
- Identify and promote positive breastfeeding practices
- Provide education for the family regarding the use of pacifiers/dummies
- Provide information and strategies to prevent and resolve engorgement, blocked ducts, and mastitis
- Provide information regarding weaning
- Identify infant/child conditions that may impact breastfeeding, including disorganized or ineffective suck, ankyloglossia, cleft lip/palate
- Assist parents of an infant/child with a chronic medical condition that may impact breastfeeding.
- Assist and support patients to identify strategies to cope with peripartum mood disorders
- Evaluate research and breastfeeding data
- Advocate for breastfeeding women, infants, children and families in all setting and promote breastfeeding as the infant/child feeding norm globally
- Promote the principles of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Timeline
Lead Clinical Nutrition Technician
Nemours Children's Health
02.2023 - Current
Nanny
Care.com
09.2022 - 09.2024
Food Service Volunteer
Wallingford School District
04.2022 - 05.2022
Nanny
Care.com
09.2019 - 09.2022
Waitress
Gatsby's Bar & Grille
03.2018 - 03.2019
Manager
Ritas Italian Water Ice
02.2014 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Nutritional Sciences with an Emphasis in Dietetics
University of Arizona
Associates of Arts - Psychology
Delaware County Community College
Certificate - Human Lactation
Drexel University
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