Registered Nurse Diabetes Educator

Diabetes EducatorThe Diabetes Educator is responsible for providing expert, evidence-based diabetes education to staff and patients. Provides educational instruction and training for diabetic patients throughout the medical facility. The Diabetes Educator understands instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training. Demonstrates knowledge and application of professional standards related to patient diabetes care. Performs learning needs assessments, develops educational trainings for patients and staff within organization. Develops entry level coaching and mentoring skills. Systematically evaluates current practice, formulates appropriate diabetic outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise. Collaborates with other Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills. Acts as a consultant in patient diabetes care principles and performance measures. Reviews current nursing literature for new diabetic trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes. Utilizes best practices and benchmarking to establish realistic goals for patient diabetes care initiatives. Collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify diabetics educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking skills, and decision making. Provides consultation and collaboration through the participation within organizational committees. Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to diabetes educational programs. Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.