Claire Hartman, RN, BSN, BFA, IBCLC

About Claire

Claire Hartman, RN, BSN, BFA, IBCLC is a SME nurse writer for Relias in Acute Care. She has nursing experience in functional medicine, neonatal intensive care, and obstetrics, with a focus in high-risk obstetrics and perinatal hospice care. She is an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant and has taught neonatal resuscitation, breastfeeding support, and routine gynecological care to providers in varied medical settings and has led community support groups for bereaved families experiencing perinatal loss. For over ten years, Ms. Hartman has worked in birth, with nursing experience in both a large public teaching hospital and a small, private birth center. In addition to obstetrics, she is enthusiastic about frontiers in functional medicine, and the burgeoning field of trauma-informed care. She holds degrees in both nursing and fine arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.