Diabetes Educator III

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Pavilion for Women seeks a Diabetes Educator III to provide education, assessment, and case management for inpatients and outpatients, promoting self-management in diverse settings. You will contribute to guidelines and care transitions, aiming to improve population health and care quality.

Innovative strategies to enhance the Quadruple Aim will be part of your responsibilities. The role requires RN or RD credentials, multiple certifications, and extensive diabetes care

Qualifications

• Licensed RN or RD with the required degree.
• CDCES or BC-ADM certification is required.
• 5+ years of diabetes care experience as a licensed clinician.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized diabetes self-management education to individuals and groups.
• Use ADCES 7 Self-Care Behaviors framework to teach and evaluate skills.
• Assess literacy, culture, language, readiness to learn and barriers.
• Evaluate needs at intervals and suggest management strategies including technology.
• Document daily activities and patient encounters in the EMR.

Skills

Diabetes care

Patient education

Clinical assessment

Inpatient & ambulatory care

Education

Associate's Degree in Nursing

Bachelor's/Master's in Nutrition, Public Health, Education, or Nursing

CDCES certification

BC-ADM certification

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

Job Description

We are searching for a Diabetes Educator III. This person provides assessment, goal setting, education and behavioral intervention, and on-going case management to patients and caregivers to promote diabetes self-management in the inpatient and ambulatory settings. Contributes to the development of position papers, guideline development, or other literature to advance the specialty. Develops processes to improve transitions of care and ensure appropriate self-management education and resources. Creates innovative strategies to achieve the Quadruple Aim (population health, quality of patient care experience, costs associated with care, and meaningfulness of the provider's experience).

We are searching for a Diabetes Educator III. This person provides assessment, goal setting, education and behavioral intervention, and on-going case management to patients and caregivers to promote diabetes self-management in the inpatient and ambulatory settings. Contributes to the development of position papers, guideline development, or other literature to advance the specialty. Develops processes to improve transitions of care and ensure appropriate self-management education and resources. Creates innovative strategies to achieve the Quadruple Aim (population health, quality of patient care experience, costs associated with care, and meaningfulness of the provider's experience).

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Responsibilities

• Provides individualized diabetes self-management education and training to individuals and groups according to the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional performance for Diabetes Educators.
• Uses the ADCES 7 Self-Care Behaviors® as a framework to teach, reinforce, and evaluate self-management skills.
• Assesses person’s skills and knowledge level, education, health literacy/numeracy, culture, readiness to learn, preferred learning style and language, barriers to learning, financial barriers, confidence and skills with technology use, and support needs.
• Evaluates patient needs at appropriate intervals and suggests appropriate management strategies, including IIM and diabetes technology.
• Interprets data generated from monitoring tools.
• Translates technology data findings into actionable recommendations based on the plan of care.
• Records daily activities and patient related encounters using appropriate formats within the electronic medical record.
• Uses technology/databases to search and find publications and appropriately filter data.
• Applies critical thinking skills to evaluate research and quality improvement findings.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree Nursing, Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Education, or Nursing requireed
• CDCES -from Certification Board of Diabetes Care and Education Or BC-ADM - Certification Board of Diabetes Care and Education required
• 5 years Diabetes care as a licensed Dietitian or Nurse required

About Us

Texas Children's Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children's Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women's Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.

Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.