Lauren Templeton

• Learned how to work in partnership with families through completing "working in partnership training".
• Managed my workload independently, including management of "clinic levels" and my MECSH clients.
• Supported families through the MECSH program. I have supported families with a range of vulnerabilities and through a variety of parenting challenges.
• Provided breastfeeding support to my MECSH clients, families visiting the Child and Family clinic, and families experiencing more significant breastfeeding difficulties in the breastfeeding support clinic.
• Grew and developed as an IBCLC, learning from incredibly experienced colleagues.
• Helped families to optimise their child's development through the learning to communicate program, as well as through ASQ assessments and activity planning.
• Attended to intake calling, determining appropriate service provision for families by undertaking detailed assessments of clients healthcare records, and an assessment phone call.
• Developed a strong passion for supporting families through the many hurdles of parenting through empowerment, education, and working in partnership

• CPAP admissions and care
• Organised and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Care of babies with chest drains
• Assisting with PIVC insertion
• Care of babies on low flow oxygen.
• NGT feeds
• Breastfeeding support and progression from breast licks to full oral feedings.
• Educating and empowering women and families in mother-crafting and baby care.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilised patients, and determined next course of action.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.

• Assisted in a number of successful births and provided postnatal counseling for families.
• Developed new bedside manner which allowed me to be a soothing and comforting presence to new families in a vulnerable time of their lives.
• Developed understanding of physical and emotional shifts that come with having a new baby and how to support women and their families through this transition
• Developed vast knowledge of breastfeeding and how to manage different feeding difficulties that families may encounter.
• Built base knowledge of birthing and how to manage different birthing scenarios
• Built sound knowledge of antenatal and postnatal midwifery and confidence to work in these fields.

• Time Management (very busy wards with large patient loads)
• Medication Administration
• Assisting with ADL’s
• Wound dressings
• Thorough and concise verbal and written documentation
• Palliative Care
• Central line care
• Vacuum dressings
• Post operative pain management
• NGT care

• Lactation Education Resources: Lactation Consultant Training Program Enriched- Completed 2023
• HETI : TYE- Masterclass for Managers and Leaders- Completed 2023
• HETI: Advanced Neonatal Nursing Course- Completed 2023
• HETI: Breastfeeding Bootcamp- Completed 2021
• HETI: From Enteral to Oral feeding- Completed 2020
• HETI: Fundamentals of Breastfeeding for Neonates- Completed 2019