Certified Diabetes Educator

Position Details ================

### Department PCMG-MAIN | Endocrinology

### Location Phoenix

### Shift Mon Wed Fri

### Days 7am-5:30pm

### Category Clinical Education

### Posting 999483

### Employee Type Part-Time

### Position Summary

This position develops, implements, and evaluates proactive patient educational plans and programs to address patient care needs in accordance with established best practices, standards, requirements, and regulations.

### Position Duties

#### Collaborations and Evaluations

• Collaborates with colleagues within the Endocrine Department to support the departmental strategic plan and ongoing institutional growth.
• Collaborates with other disciplines and departments as a change agent and participates in the evaluation of outcomes.

#### Patient Assessments and Care

• Completes nursing assessment of patient conditions consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors, to determine initial level of compliance with treatment plan per policy and unit guidelines.
• Performs ongoing patient and family assessments and identifies variations from diagnoses.
• Continually evaluates patient responses to care, teaching, and discharge plans.
• Documents patient progress in appropriate charts and shares observations and assessment outcomes with the healthcare team and family to ensure timely communication and understanding of patient health status, progress, and ongoing needs.

#### Teamwork and Professional Development

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing required activities within established parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication storage and documentation standards, regulations, and requirements.
• Engages in ongoing organizational endeavors that support the philosophy and values of Phoenix Childrens nursing model of care and professional development of staff.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates learning opportunities based on evidence using a variety of teaching strategies.
• Seeks and takes advantage of opportunities to enhance own professional growth and development.

#### Supervision and Feedback

• Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency.
• Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.

#### Patient Care and Communication

• Works collaboratively with the patient care team and family members to establish and implement a plan of care to ensure coordination of activities and ongoing communication of patient health status.
• Participates in patient care rounds and patient care conferences as appropriate.

### Patient Case Management

#### Miscellaneous Job-Related Duties

• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as requested.