RN, Diabetes Educator (Outpatient) - Per Diem

Adventist Health•Corning, CA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Located in beautiful Northern California, Adventist Health Clear Lake has been a leading healthcare provider in Lake County since 1968, comprising a 25-bed critical access hospital and primary and specialty care clinics. The area offers outdoor activities and is close to major cities. The RN, Diabetes Educator provides outpatient clinical care for patients with acute or chronic hyper/hypo glucose management, managing therapeutic regimes according to protocols. This role involves individualized or group, goal-directed diabetes management education for patients and their families, adhering to the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional performance for RN Diabetes Educators. The educator also provides diabetes education to caregivers, staff, and the community, coordinates the Diabetic Care Center, and assists in its further development. For facilities with recognized DSMES Programs, this position acts as the quality coordinator, overseeing effective implementation, evaluation, tracking, and reporting of DSMES service outcomes.

Requirements

Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN)
Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE)

Responsibilities

Provides outpatient clinical care to patients suffering from acute or chronic hyper/hypo glucose management, managing therapeutic regimes according to protocols.
Provides individualized or group, goal directed diabetes management education for patients and their families according to the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional performance for RN Diabetes Educators.
Provides diabetes education to patients, caregivers, staff, and the community.
Coordinates the Diabetic Care Center utilizing knowledge of educational needs, class development and presentations in a health care environment.
Uses instructional responsibilities and teaching opportunities to improve the quality of care.
Develops selected core curriculum and educational program planning, implementation and evaluation.
Assists in further development of diabetes care center.
At facilities in the system with recognized DSMES Programs, if applicable this position is the quality coordinator for the DSMES and will oversee effective implementation, evaluation, tracking, and reporting of DSMES service outcomes.
Functions as a professional Diabetes Program Instructor.
Works collaboratively with multi-disciplinary diabetes care team to implement plan of care.
Participates in the development of training materials.
Provides clinical care to patients suffering from acute or chronic hyper/hypo glucose management, managing therapeutic regimes according to protocols.
Provides educational interventions that utilize primarily interactive, collaborative, skill-based training methods and maximizes the use of interactive training methods.
Reinforces diabetes education and instruction to staff nurses and support staff.
Develops and distributes educational materials to community.
Develops a Plan of Care that will include, but is not limited to, self-care skills, disease process, medication, diet, activity, home safety management and emergency procedures.
Provides Medical Nutrition Therapy to outpatients with diagnoses other than diabetes.
Conducts a follow-up assessment upon completion of the Diabetes Self-management Training, using program outcome measures.
Contributes to, and participates in, a continuous quality improvement process regarding the Diabetes Self-management Program to measure, to identify, and address opportunities for improvement.
Provides documentation to physicians on patient progress.
Collects and analyses specific client data and outcomes.
Assists in the development and implementation of educational and dietetic counseling interventions based on client-specific needs.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.