Diabetes Care & Education Specialist, Amb Svc Endocrinology

Job Responsibilities

Care Integration:
Works as an effective member of a multi‑disciplinary pediatric diabetes care team (MDs, nurse practitioners, nurses, dietitians, and social worker), and working with children with diabetes. Provide education to school nurses, school personnel and other care providers. Maximize the use of interdisciplinary team resources to enable chronic disease management for patients with diabetes. The incumbent will focus on diabetes care, and preventative treatment.

Provide direct patient management, education, and discharge planning to children/families with new onset and ongoing management of the condition post‑diagnosis in the outpatient setting. Works collaboratively with the treating provider to manage and monitor treatment and the response to therapy. Provides assistance to the patient and family in obtaining necessary prescriptions for supplies and medication. Provides education to hospital staff through consultation or in‑service education.

Precepts new staff. Educate and train health care professionals involved in caring for children with diabetes.

Patient and Family

Education:

Provides pre‑diabetes and diabetes instruction in group and individual sessions. Obtains individual patient assessment. Identifies patient/family problems or learning barriers including physical, cognitive, environmental, language/cultural, financial, psychosocial and spiritual and provides appropriate referral as necessary. Establishes individualized learning goals, objectives and educational plan in collaboration with the patient and the patient’s caregiver(s). Evaluates patient upon completion of educational plan and provides remediation/plan modification as indicated and in consultation with diabetes team members.

Develop educational materials on diabetes self‑management based on needs of families or requests by staff in accordance with Clinical Content Committee guidelines, including materials on diabetes self‑management, insulin adjustment, use of insulin pumps, and effective educational strategies for families with diabetes on patients from various ethnicities for both type 1 and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Stress the importance of properly managing diabetes to lower the risk of complications and reduce the chances of hospitalization.

Outreach:
Participates in community diabetes programs/outreach activities. Serve on diabetes advisory boards, committees, to promote diabetes community events and services. Supports quality standards and initiatives set by department. Actively participate and accept responsibility for special projects such as speaker requests, and diabetes family programs/events.

Clinical Practice:
Assess DSME&S of patient and family including use of prescribed technology. Provides diabetes self‑management education and family support for patients with diabetes in the inpatient, outpatient setting. Provide both individualized and group DSME&S family education. Work with patients diagnosed with diabetes and their families, to facilitate improving self‑management age specific goals for all patients. Work with specialized endocrine populations to facilitate improving self‑management age specific goals for all patients.

Provides education that reflects the National Standards for Diabetes Self‑Management Education. Determines appropriate educational plan for family and patient based on learning assessment with consideration for growth and development, psychosocial, and emotional factors. Demonstrates expert knowledge of diabetes by providing current, fact‑based information. Coordinate education to maximize efficiency, timely and safe discharge from inpatient or outpatient services. Maximize efforts to provide value based, cost effective diabetes education.

Program Support:
Supports quality standards and initiatives set by department. Participates in practice changes as a result of performance improvement activities. Evaluates effectiveness of educational services provided by measuring attainment of learning objectives. Conducts a follow‑up assessment upon completion of program services, using outcome measures. Documents assessment data, educational plan, educational…