The Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) is a skilled and experienced professional Registered Nurse (RN) who is a content expert in diabetes care and education. The CDCES promotes self-management to achieve individualized behavioral and treatment goals that reduce risk and optimize health outcomes. The RN CDCES has the responsibility to provide diabetes education to both the patient, their family and/or caregivers and Major Health Partners clinical staff.
• Provides evidenced based, clinical best practice in diabetes education to persons with diabetes and their family members or caregivers.
• Participates as a member of interdisciplinary healthcare team to facilitate the continuum of care and education of patients with diabetes.
• Serves as a consultant/resource to the clinical areas, clinic staff, and departments as it relates to diabetes education.
• Works with the MHP Diabetes Clinic leadership team on new clinical initiatives regarding diabetes and education.
• Cultivate positive and collaborative relationships with nursing, and clinical leadership teams to ensure that educational needs are being met in the most effective manner possible.
• Provides leadership through educational activities to bring about changes in clinical practice regarding diabetes care and education.
• Monitors and evaluates, as needed, resource utilization, patient outcomes, patient's skills in self-care, and patient's ability and readiness to learn.
• Ensures correct and timely documentation in the patient's medical record following individual consultation.
• Counsels and educates individual patients appropriately on diabetes care in conjunction with patient's medical provider (diabetes medications, exercise, diet, sick days, etc.).
• Make recommendations to medical staff and/or pharmacy staff to consider diabetes medication adjustments.
