Responsibilities include supporting the diabetes practice, being an active member of the interdisciplinary team, comprehensive diabetes education for patients, families, caregivers and staff, collection of blood glucose data and the surveillance of outcome measurements, nutrition therapy, maintenance of evidence-based hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia management order sets and protocols (as well as monitoring, tracking, and root cause analysis to prevent errors and patient harm), individualized medication management plan, plan of care that facilitates smooth transition across care settings (2, 3, 4). Specific skills should include clinical competence in the following: use of diabetes medications including insulin, clinical management of all patients with diabetes, all aspects related to education and successful use of continuous subcutaneous insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring, management and modification of individual diabetes plan of care based on optimizing glycemic control and specified targets.