**Up to $5000 Sign on Bonus Offered**
Paid out in FULL after 30 days of employment!
CHI Health has an immediate need to add a Clinic Diabetes Educator RN (Nurse) to our Valley View Clinic located in Council Bluffs, IA!
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8a-5p
Are you an RN with a passion for empowering individuals to take charge of their diabetes? Do you possess the ability to demystify blood glucose meters, inject a little humor into insulin instruction, and inspire healthy eating without sounding like a broken record? Then we want you! You'll be a beacon of knowledge, a cheerleader for healthy choices, and possibly the only person who can make carb counting almost fun!
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Conducts a thorough individualized assessment of the person with or at risk for diabetes. Works with the person with or at risk for diabetes to identify mutally acceptable diabetes self management training (DSMT) outcomes and behavioral objectives.
- Provides diabetes education according to the individualized plan of care and desired outcomes. Develops the self-management training plan to attain the mutually defined outcomes. The plan integrates current diabetes care practices and established principles of teaching and learning. The plan is coordinated among the healthcare team members, the participant, referring provider, and other relevant support systems.
- Coordinates/provides individual/group education sessions for diabetic outpatients.
- Provides leadership in maintaining and developing diabetic education program standards, policies, and procedures.
- Maintains on-going evaluation of the diabetes education program.
- Assists in Quality Improvement activities related to patients with diabetes.
