RN Certified Diabetes Educator - Full-time / Part-time

Summary:

 The Diabetes Educator, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and in accordance with approved protocols, provides Diabetes Self-Management Education and training services to clients/families with diabetes   (pediatric, adult, and geriatric).  This includes coordinating care, assessing and identifying risk factors, negotiating care plans with the patient, education (group and/or individual), monitoring and communicating outcomes.

Requirements: 

• Assess the patient’s abilities, limitations and barriers to diabetes self-management. 
• In collaboration with the PCP and multidisciplinary team, identify and prioritize strategies to assist patients with Diabetes Self-Management education.
• Assist members with medication adjustments to achieve optimal glycemic control in direct correspondence with the primary care provider, and/or endocrinologist.   
• Using self-management-training techniques, assess, plan and implement patient and family education in an individual and/or group setting.
• Education includes but is not limited to self-blood glucose monitoring, medications, diet, exercise, emotional adjustment and coping skills, foot care and risk reduction.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of educational process toward achieving self-management.

Education/Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science Required
• Registered Nurse/Registered Dietician with current licensure and registration in NYS. Advanced training in diabetes required (certification by the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators (CDE) or a minimum of comprehensive diabetes training or equivalent with evidenced of minimal 30 CUE’s annually. 
• Plan to take CDE exam within a year of date of hire. 
• Pathophysiology of diabetes, medication management of diabetes, lipids, and hypertension; basic concepts of Diabetes care coordination, self-management techniques, motivational techniques and brief negotiation.
• Continuing Education with minimum of 20 hours /year that includes diabetes, educational principles and behavioral strategies. 
• Medical Surgical experience preferred and Spanish-Bilingual preferred 

About Us:

We build an entire organization around one objective, providing comprehensive care to medically underserved patients.  For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter.  If you envision an opportunity to directly serve people who need and appreciate all that you have to offer, we are the leading federally qualified community health care network consisting of 26 family medicine practices serving over 90,000 patients in New York city and the Mid-Hudson Valley.