RN Diabetes Educator - Military veterans preferred

Description

Metropolitan Methodist Hospital 

RN Diabetes Educator Certified

Full Time - Non-Exempt

Day 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