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Diabetic Care & Education Clinician

Position Summary

The Michigan State University (MSU) College of Nursing (CON) is seeking an experienced registered nurse (RN) with an interest in chronic care management to enhance diabetic and pre-diabetic patient outcomes for diverse populations in a Nurse Practitioner-led clinic. The RN will be a part of a collaborative team of nurses providing high-quality care that supports inclusive and culturally appropriate behavior modifications and is expected to function at the top of their scope of practice. As a part of the team, the RN will use a scholarly approach, which indicates their understanding of inclusive patient care in diverse communities, making use of evidence-based practices.  The RN will use continuous quality improvement processes to assure equity, quality, safety, and enhanced patient outcomes in diverse populations. The successful RN candidate must be certified as or eligible to be certified as a Diabetic Care & Education Specialist (DCES).  The selected candidate will also serve as a preceptor to RN nursing students for the MSU College of Nursing.

All team members in the College of Nursing carry a leadership role that fosters a sense of inclusion, belonging and servant leadership. This includes:

• Demonstrate a commitment to long term, sustained action that increases inclusive practices in health equity across the CON
• Intentionally create an environment that encourages a sense of belonging, inclusive learning, work, and clinical service environments that enable everyone to reach their full potential
• Recognize that inclusion is a journey and strive to move along the continuum of embracing experiences and resources that address anti-racist and anti-oppressive ideas while acknowledging the inward and outward systems that influence bias and cultural awareness
• Strive to be a champion of inclusive practices that lead and transform others and creates initiatives that change structural systems within nursing education which have historically inhibited, disenfranchised, marginalized, and unintentionally excluded underrepresented communities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to complete initial patient/family educational sessions, assessments, reassessments and follow-up, and suggest referrals as necessary with accuracy and skill

Recommend treatment changes to enhance diabetic patient outcomes and adherence to treatment

Educate diabetic and prediabetic patients and their family members on appropriate care, management, and treatment

Focus on collaborative work and informed patient care to ensure that patients make realistic lifestyle changes to enhance outcomes

Create and maintain inclusive and equitable partnerships and collaborate to enhance patient outcomes

Serves as a nutrition and diabetes consultant to the healthcare team

Assemble information concerning patient's clinical background and referral needs

Utilize critical thinking in determining alternative solutions and assist in solving patient problems and issues as need to be in compliance with diabetic disease

Utilize American Diabetic Association (ADA) and American Association of Diabetic Educator (AADE) approved curriculum and education materials for patient instruction

Utilize appropriate motivational interviewing techniques necessary for coaching and assisting the patient to complete self-management goal/action plans

Collaboratively develop goals, learning objectives and a plan for educational content and teaching methods

Provide education interventions that utilize interactive, skill-based training methods for group classes and individual teaching

Develop individualized follow-up plans with patients that meet their diversity and