RN Diabetes Educator
Company: Methodist Hospital Metropolitan
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: April 17, 2024
Job Description:
Description Metropolitan Methodist Hospital -RN Diabetes
Educator CertifiedFull Time - Non-ExemptDay Shift - Weekdays
Only.Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do
you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment?
Jump-start your career in with us. Submit your application
today!Benefits:We offer you an excellent total compensation
package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package
and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability
to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO
medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition
reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase
program, and student loan repayment. We would love to talk to you
about this fantastic opportunity.The RN Diabetes Educator is a
professional nurse, who independently directs, initiates and
implements patient diabetes teaching and learning with a body of
expertise knowledge and advanced skills, and ultimately inducing
positive outcome to empower and promote behavior changes necessary
for optimal health, psychological adaptation and quality of life
for the patient with a chronic disease, Diabetes Mellitus.
Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, and working closely with
nursing staff, physicians, dieticians, case managers, physical
therapists, the diabetes nurse educator will assess, plan,
implement, document, and evaluate educational instructions and
outcomes given in a self-management directed program of diabetes
education. -What you will do In This Role:
- -Functions independently and collaboratively with hospital
health care professionals and director in the interest and the
achievement of optimal care for the patient with diabetes. -
- -Focuses primary area of responsibility to the education of
patients, their families and appropriate support systems about
diabetes self management and related care issues. -
- -Counsels patients and/or significant other(s) concerning
self-management treatment responses to potential acute and chronic
situations. -
- -Utilizes the integration of a continuous nursing process
beginning with a learning and training needs in-depth assessment,
planning the teaching-learning process, and documents the education
plan which includes but not limited to specific short and/or
long-term behavior goals for diabetes self-management. -
- -Documents patients and/or significant other(s) responses to
education and progress toward achievement of educational objectives
and behavior change goals. -
- -Evaluates the outcomes of the diabetes education delivered to
the patient with diabetes (with respect to plans of care and their
implementation). -What Qualifications You Will Need:
- Education: Graduate of a professional school of nursing. - - -
-Preferable: Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
- Experience: Minimum of 3 years clinical nursing experience. - -
- - -Preferable: 1 year of direct diabetes education Bilingual in
both English and Spanish language -
- Minimum License and Certificates & Training Required: -
- Current license to practice professional nursing in the state
of Texas -
- Maintenance of current Basic life support training If
certified, maintenance of current recognized certification: -
- Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) through the National
Certification Board for Diabetes Educators -OR
- - -Board Certified- Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM)
through the American Association of Diabetes Educators -With over
370 beds Methodist Hospital Metropolitan offers outstanding heart
and cancer care, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery,
obstetrics and gynecology services, inpatient and outpatient
rehabilitation services, sleep disorder evaluation and the largest
emergency room in downtown San Antonio. Our women's pavilion is the
only stand-alone center city facility dedicated to the health of
women and their newborn babies, welcoming nearly 4,000 newborns
into the world each year. Methodist Hospital Metropolitan is home
to the Methodist Weight Loss Center and has been designated an
American Society for Metabolic Surgery Bariatric Surgery Center of
Excellence -.Our hospital has been recognized by Modern Healthcare
as a Best Place to Work in Healthcare, and for the fourth
consecutive year as a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by the
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. It is the first hospital in
San Antonio to achieve Pathway to Excellence designation by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center. Methodist Hospital
Metropolitan has been nationally recognized by Leapfrog for focus
on safety and quality, receiving a Grade A Hospital Safety Score
for 8 consecutive rating periods. We are also proud to be an
Accredited Chest Pain Center by the American College of Cardiology
and Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission, as well as the
first Texas hospital to earn a Gold Seal of Approval for Sepsis
Certification. For more information, please visit our website at
www.sahealth.com and select Methodist Hospital Metropolitan under
Locations.Be a part of an organization that invests in you. We are
actively reviewing applications. Qualified candidates will be
promptly contacted by our hiring managers for interviews. Submit
your application today and help us raise the bar in patient care!We
are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our
company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion,
color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital
status, veteran status, or disability
Keywords: Methodist Hospital Metropolitan, San Antonio , RN Diabetes Educator, Healthcare , San Antonio, Texas
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