RN - Amb Svc Endocrinology

Cincinnati Children's•Greendale, WI

50d•$76,336 - $97,490•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Diabetes Care & Education Specialist within the Amb Svc Endocrinology department at Cincinnati Children's Burnet Campus. The position is full-time, 0.9 FTE, with a weekly hour commitment of 36. The specialist will work as part of a multi-disciplinary pediatric diabetes care team, focusing on chronic disease management, preventative treatment, direct patient management, education, and discharge planning for children with diabetes in an outpatient setting. The role involves collaborating with providers, assisting with prescriptions, educating hospital staff and healthcare professionals, and precepting new staff. A significant part of the role includes patient and family education on diabetes self-management, including pre-diabetes and diabetes instruction in group and individual sessions, developing educational materials, and emphasizing the importance of diabetes management to prevent complications. The specialist will also participate in community outreach, support quality initiatives, and engage in special projects. Clinical practice involves assessing diabetes self-management education and support (DSME&S), providing education in various settings, working with specialized endocrine populations, and ensuring education aligns with national standards. Program support includes participating in performance improvement activities, evaluating educational effectiveness, documenting services, maintaining knowledge of regulatory requirements, and seeking professional growth opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field
1+ year of work experience in a related job discipline
OH Registered Dietician license OR OH Registered Nurse license
Must obtain CDCES Certification through the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education within 3 years.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 services provided and evaluation results in each participant's educational records.
Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Support leadership to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
Seeks professional growth or opportunities to advance care and knowledge including but not limited to diabetes technology, quality improvement work, chronic care, behavioral change, diabetes self-management education, and growth and development.