Diabetes Educator - Outpatient Nutrition

Certified Diabetes Care And Education Specialist – Rn

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist – RN serves in an advanced role providing in-depth analysis of the patient with diabetes and providing specialized care and in-depth education for persons with diabetes and their families. Serves as a team member in assessing needs, planning and providing education and care, evaluating outcomes and coordinating follow up care for persons with diabetes.

Job duties include:

• Providing diabetes self-management education and training which includes evaluation of the individual's skills, support, and barriers to care.
• Assessing general diabetes knowledge, evaluating physical findings, anthropometric measurements, and physical findings.
• Teaching person appropriate essential self-care behaviors to improve effective self-management of their disease. These may include healthy eating, being physically active, monitoring of blood sugar, medication administration and adherence, problem solving, healthy coping skills, and risk reduction behaviors.
• Developing diabetes management plans appropriate to patient's immediate diabetes needs.
• Reviewing and assessing lab results and adapting clinical recommendations and care plan accordingly.
• Serving as a resource for patient and family.
• Documenting in accordance with established standards.
• Investigating and problem solving patient care issues with care team and facilitating change to promote quality outcomes.
• Enhancing quality of diabetes care through collaboration with other services and initiating referrals to appropriate support services.
• Working within the multidisciplinary team for diabetes education and management and collaborating with other disciplines to identify and resolve patient care issues.
• Conducting diabetes education through group classes as indicated.
• Participating in departmental initiatives to meet strategic goals.
• Precepting students as indicated. Mentoring and training new staff members, colleagues, and other members of the care team as applicable.
• Practicing with a high degree of autonomy.
• Evaluating evidence-based best practice and sharing back to team including proposing adjustments to supporting reference materials, policies, etc.
• Providing guidance to providers and other healthcare professionals.
• Participating in multi-disciplinary care team and functioning as the diabetes expert.
• Collaborating with inter/intra professional team members to achieve department goals and optimize service.
• Serving as designated point person for new hires as indicated.
• May include specialty program management and program evaluation outcomes.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position details include:

• Hiring incentive: $5,000 sign-on bonus for qualified applicants.
• Outpatient diabetes educator position in an ADA-accredited clinic setting.
• Responsibilities include diabetes self-management training (DSMT), insulin pump education, and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) education.
• Will consider candidates with relevant RN or RDN experience and credentials.
• Certified diabetes educator (CDCES) or diabetes educator experience preferred.
• Non-CDCES candidates will be considered if they have at least 2 years of healthcare experience as an RN or RDN and are willing to obtain certification.
• Non-CDCES candidates must sit for the CDCES certification exam within 2 years of hire.

Schedule:

• Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM.
• Travel as needed for training.
• Exempt position.

Hybrid option:

• Eligible for 1–2 work-from-home days per week after training, contingent upon telemedicine support and departmental coverage.

Role-specific qualifications:

• Diabetes educator RDN:
  Bachelor's degree required. CDCES certification required within 2 years of hire.
• Registered…