Diabetes Educator/RN, Norton Children's Maternal Fetal Medicine

Responsibilities

• Serves as a provider of diabetes care and education within the Norton Healthcare System.
• Provides direct patient care and support, including evaluation and teaching of use for insulin and anti-hyperglycemic agents, and delivery tools.
• Manages patients’ routine diabetes care through assessment of use of advanced diabetes technologies (including glucose meters, interstitial glucose sensors, and subcutaneous insulin infusion pumps).
• Delivers comprehensive diabetes care and education for nutrition, basic diabetes management, acute/chronic complication prevention, lifestyle and behavior modification, while assessing comprehension, psychosocial factors, and social determinants of health.
• Functions as part of multidisciplinary team utilizing age-appropriate principles of growth and development for patients aged infant to geriatric.
• Participates as needed with organizational departments/committees and partners with external programs to provide robust health and wellness options to patients served.
• Administers comprehensive diabetes care through on-site programs/classes to deliver nutrition and relevant health and wellness education to patients and their families in the ambulatory, emergency department, and hospital-based settings via face-to-face or remote electronic modalities.

Qualifications

• One year in specialty area
• Bachelor Degree
• Registered Nurse
• Desired Master Degree
• Certified Diabetes Educator (National) OR Licensed Diabetes Educator (State) OR Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
• OR One of: CDE or CDCES
• Must obtain withing 2.5 years of hire OR Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist