Required Skills/Experience:
DSMES is required.
Insulin education is required.
CGM education is required.
Counseling is required.
Care coordination is required.
Required Credentials:
An associate's degree in nursing or a bachelor's degree in dietetics is required.
Years of relevant experience may be substituted for the required education.
Preferred Credentials:
A BSN is preferred for the RN credential; an MS in Nutrition is preferred for the RD credential.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
Pump training is preferred.
Gestational diabetes experience is preferred.
Pediatric diabetes experience is preferred.
ADA-recognized DSMES experience is preferred.
Rural healthcare experience is preferred.
Unit Details:
Provides diabetes education, consultation, and evaluation of patient and program outcomes.
Independently writes, communicates, and implements teaching interventions for patients, families, and significant others.
Provides educational material using teaching principles and a variety of formats for new pediatric inpatients and outpatients in group and individual sessions.
Provides educational material appropriate to identified needs, using knowledge of growth and development, for outpatients in group and individual sessions.
Assists with maintaining diabetes supplies.
Patient population spans neonates, infants, early childhood, late childhood, adolescents, young adults, middle adults, and older adults, including gestational, type 1, and type 2 diabetes.
Common diagnoses and treatments include type 1 and type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, gestational diabetes, insulin therapy, CGM initiation, and nutrition counseling.
Shift & Scheduling:
Monday through Friday with no weekend hours.
No call.
Floating Requirements:
Float to multiple outpatient clinics and provide occasional inpatient diabetes education consults.
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