Lillian Rose Larson

In this role, my responsibilities include:

• Manage caseload of lactating patients and breastfeeding infants
• Improved patient outcomes by providing comprehensive lactation support and education to new mothers.
• Worked closely with neonatologists and pediatricians to address complex feeding issues in premature and medically fragile infants.
• Maintained professional growth by attending conferences and workshops focused on current trends in lactation care practices.
• Mentored new lactation consultants by providing guidance on best practices and sharing valuable experiences from years of professional practice.
• Increased breastfeeding success rates through one-on-one consultations, addressing individual concerns and challenges.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to ensure seamless delivery of lactation services across various hospital departments.
• Evaluated effectiveness of implemented interventions, adjusting care plans as needed based on progress toward desired goals.
• Served as resource for nursing staff by providing ongoing education on lactation topics, fostering knowledgeable workforce.
• Utilized evidence-based practices to develop personalized care plans for each mother-infant dyad, promoting optimal health outcomes.
• Contribute to development of standards, protocols and procedures related to breastfeeding and pumping.

• I serve as a resource to patients and professionals, teaching and modeling evidence-based lactation practice
• Manage the ICU caseload of lactating patients and breastfeeding infants across the continuum (prenatal and postpartum assessment and care planning, intervention and evaluation)
• Provide NICU lactation services, including but not limited to: direct care to lactating parents and their infants, availability via phone to provide immediate resource to families, consultation to perinatal/neonatal staff to assist in the lactation support of their patients

• MIC (Maternity and Infant Center) including providing care to patients admitted to Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, Antepartum and Lactation Services
• Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients acuity levels and individual needs.
• Assessment and direct patient care of well and high-risk ante-partum, intra-partum and postpartum women and newborn infants
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary medical team to assess, plan, and implement care and provide education and support to patients and families
• Advocate for and provide care for patients whose pregnancies are complicated by high-risk medical co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, preterm labor, transplants, cardiac defects, kidney disease, and pregnancy loss
• Responsibilities include fetal heart rate assessment and interpretation, management and monitoring of progression of labor, circulate to operating room for cesarean sections, postpartum recovery including post-operative and post-anesthesia care, initiation and maintenance of intravenous access, high-risk medication administration, phlebotomy, administration of blood products, care of the patient experiencing obstetric emergency
• Assessment and direct patient care of newborn including breastfeeding assistance, medication administration, treatments for jaundice and hypoglycemia
• Documented nursing intervention and patient and family responses accurately and in compliance with hospital policies

• Maternal Child Health, Community Health Division
• Performed home visits, phone consultations, case conferences, assessments, child development screenings and gave referrals to support families with children with special healthcare needs
• Performed assessments for each individual case to determine best fit for materials and services
• Coordinated enrollment in and engagement with supportive services
• Public health promotion of breastfeeding via local Snohomish county breastfeeding coalition
• Collaborated with local health departments and other community partners
• Supported access to first trimester prenatal care in rural Snohomish County