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For Employers - Nursing Room Guidelines
Suggestions for Furnishing
a Workplace Nursing Area
Basic Model
- Clean room that locks from the inside
- Electrical outlet (standard 110V)
- Comfortable chair
- Small table or flat surface to hold breast pump
- Room located near sink with hot running water
- Disinfecting wipes
- Paper towels and soap dispenser by the sink with the hot running water
- Employee rents or owns her own breast pump
- Employee provides her own pump attachment kit
- Employee stores breast milk in employee refrigerator or personal cooler
- Wastebasket
Even Better Model
- Clean room that locks from the inside
- Electrical outlet (standard 110V)
- Comfortable chair and footstool
- Small table or flat surface to hold breast pump
- Room has sink with hot running water
- Disinfecting wipes
- Paper towels and soap dispenser by the sink
- Employer pays for rental of hospital grade multi-user electric pump
- Employer subsidizes pump attachment kit
- Employer provides personal coolers for storing breast milk
- Wastebasket
- Wall clock
- Bulletin board for educational materials or communications
- Educational resources available
- Telephone available
State of the Art Model
- Clean room that locks from the inside
- Electrical outlet (standard 110V)
- Comfortable chair and footstool
- Small table or flat surface to hold breast pump
- Room has sink with hot running water
- Disinfecting wipes
- Paper towels and soap dispenser by the sink
- Employer provides for a personal electric pump or hospital-grade multi-user electric pump. Note: Consider including an electric personal breast pump in your employee health benefit package.
- Employer provides pump attachment kit
- Employer provides small refrigerator in nursing room for storing breast milk
- Wastebasket
- Wall clock
- Bulletin board for educational materials or communications
- Educational resources available
- Telephone available
- Internet access