RN Pediatric Diabetes Coordinator

Overview

M Health Fairview has an immediate opening for an RN Pediatric Diabetes Coordinator. Join M Health Fairview, the largest healthcare system in the state! This is a Monday - Friday day shift opening, no evenings or weekends - great work/life balance!

This is a 1.0 FTE (80 hours per two week pay period) opening,

M Health Fairview offers a competitive benefits package including medical/dental, 401k/403b with employer match, tuition reimbursement, and PTO! For details, please visit our benefits page by clicking here!

This role will be based out of the U of M Masonic Children's Hospital and wil also cover the Maple Grove, Burnsville, and Woodbury locations.

Responsibilities/Job Description

The RN Pediatric Diabetes Coordinator coordinates the care of pediatric diabetes patients from the initial contact throughout the entire period the patient is followed at the University of Minnesota, Fairview Pediatric Diabetes clinic (usually until adulthood). Coordinates diabetes care for pediatric and adult patients with cystic fibrosis related diabetes.

1.Coordinates diabetes care for pediatric type 1 and 2 diabetes and pediatric and adult cystic fibrosis related diabetes.

• Collaborates with MD and interdisciplinary team members to help patient achieve diabetes metabolic control, including striving for optimal hemoglobin A1c levels, preventing unacceptable severity and frequency of hypoglycemia, preventing diabetic ketoacidosis, and maintaining normal weight, growth, and development:

− Coordinates collaboration between patients, families, and health care professionals to form an effective team approach in management of diabetes. Identifies the need to include other profession expertise (for example, psychology).

− Works closely with school nurses, home health nurses, daycare providers, and child protection workers to plan and manage diabetes, and to evaluate care systems and resources.

− Serves as liaison with MDs to implement medical management of condition changes, diagnostic test results, and lab results, based on life-long knowledge of patient and patient condition.

− Collaborates with the family in providing necessary psychosocial support and stress management strategies to facilitate the individual and family's grief process related to having diabetes, promote positive self-esteem and worth in children and youth with diabetes, and to promote a balanced, flexible, healthy style of living with diabetes

• Provides direct patient assessment and evaluation.

− Obtains patient history and interprets blood glucose records and insulin pump downloads;

− Maintains regular telephone or email contact with patients and families (often over a period of several years);

− Assesses patient and family's need for supervision and support;

− Provides physician with information on patient status;

− Maintains appropriate electronic medical record documentation of patient care activities.

• Provides triage and makes patient care decisions:

− Responds to patient phone calls about chronic condition changes and about acute emergencies such as hypoglycemia, acute illness or equipment malfunction;

− Makes insulin adjustment decisions based on blood glucose levels and clinical circumstances according to protocols established in collaboration with MD;

− Instructs patients/families about needed medical care and evaluation as appropriate;

− Participates in outpatient follow-up visits both as part of the multidisciplinary team and independently.

2.Provides patient, MD, community and professional education.

• Patient education:

− Designs an education program which spans patient needs ranging from survival skills in the newly diagnosed patient to advanced diabetes management skills in established patients;

− Maintains an up-to-date collection of age-appropriate education materials for patients of all ages;

− Introduces patients to the principles of diabetes care necessary to live a healthy life with this disease;

− Provides on-going, age-appropriate patient and family education throughout the entire time the patient is followed in clinic (often for many years);

− Maintains the documentation required for American Diabetes Association recognition of the diabetes education program.

• Community and health care professional education:

− Contributes to the training of pediatric residents, endocrinology fellows and nursing students in the principles of diabetes care, chronic illness care, and collaborative health care team dynamics;

− Provides pediatric diabetes management education to local healthcare networks;

− Lectures and leads conferences and workshops at national meetings;

− Serves as a preceptor in student learning situations;

− Lectures about diabetes and about the nursing profession to high school students;

− Orients new staff to pediatric diabetes;

− Acts as a role model for other areas of nursing by demonstrating care coordination and arrangement, problem solving skills and efficient utilization of resources.

3.Conducts research.

• Participates/collaborates with MD on U of MN School of Medicine or School of Nursing research studies;

• Submits materials related to diabetes for presentation and/or publication to local, state and national audiences;

• Monitors resource utilization for high quality cost effective, efficient care and research;

Monitors progress within clinical protocols, provides input for clinical protocol development.

4.Provides program development.

• Coordinates the development /revision of current protocols regarding diabetes;

• Develops new approaches to assist diabetes patients in management of their disease care over the course of a lifetime;

• Contributes/participates in program elements redesign;

• Participates in quality initiatives, identifies new areas to improve.

• Serves on task forces and committees.

5.Practices ongoing professional development.

• Keeps current of new developments in diabetes through reading, attending seminars and networking with other coordinators across the nation;

• Demonstrates value and upholds team building principles;

• Serves as professional role-model.

Qualifications

Required

Education

BA/BS in Nursing

License/Certification/Registration

MN RN License

Preferred

Education

Certified Diabetes Educator certificate (CDE), or working towards a CDE (requires accumulation of 1000 patient hours)

Pediatric experience optimal.

Experience

Six months of either pediatric or diabetes experience

1 year RN experience

License/Certification/Registration

CDE or working towards CDE