Diabetes Educator Dietitian
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Job Location:
Dickinson, ND - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Where Youll Work
CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson part of CommonSpirit Heath a national nonprofit health system based in Englewood Colorado. The faith-based system operates in 18 states and includes 103 hospitals. Additional services offered within the system are: long-term care assisted and residential living communities community health services organizations home health agencies and numerous outpatient facilities.
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Diabetes Educator Dietitian you will provide specialized nutrition education and counseling for individuals with diabetes empowering self-management.
Every day you will assess patient needs develop personalized meal plans educate on glucose management and lifestyle and conduct sessions applying evidence-based practices.
To be successful you will demonstrate expert knowledge in diabetes nutrition excellent teaching skills and a compassionate approach to optimize patient health outcomes.
- Coordinates the planning implementation and evaluation of the DSMES program.
- Measures the effectiveness of the DSMES through the development and utilizations of a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) plan.
- Responsible for maintaining ADA Recognition and participating in the evaluation of the program.
- Develops and maintains an education curriculum including selection and on-going review of educational materials to ensure they meet the needs of the population targeted.
- Develops and maintains policies/procedures/standing orders as they relate to inpatient and outpatient education.
- Provides education following the ADA curriculum framework of these 9 topic areas: diabetes pathophysiology; healthy eating; being active; taking medication; monitoring glucose; acute complications - prevention detection and treatment; chronic complications - prevention detection and treatment; lifestyle and healthy coping; and diabetes distress and support for both inpatients and outpatients.
We are offering a $10000 Incentiveto new hires who meet the eligibility requirements.
Job Requirements
- Masters Other Social Work upon hire or
- Associates Of Science Nursing upon hire or
- Bachelors Of Science Nutrition upon hire or
- Doctoral degree of Pharmacy Psychology Optometry Physical Therapy Medicine Podiatric Medicine Physician Assistant Studies or Occupational Therapy upon hire or
- Masters Other Occupational Therapy upon hire or
- Bachelors Of Science Nursing upon hire or
- Bachelors degree in exercise physiology exercise science kinesiology or another healthcare and related field upon hire or
- Bachelors Other health education or health promotion upon hire
- Dietitian: ND upon hire and
- Registered Dietitian CDR upon hire and
- Certified Diabetes Educator upon hire
Key Skills
- Culinary Experience
- EMR Systems
- Motivational Interviewing
- Food Service
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- Computer Skills
- MDS
- Dietary Department Experience
- Dialysis Experience
- Food Production Experience
- Tube Feeding
About Company
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