Clinical Nutritionist/Certified Diabetic Educator (FGP) – Manhattan, Center for Women's Health

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops insulin and oral hypoglycemic protocols as required to allow effective management of practice patients. Maintains all specified qualifications as detailed below
• Participates in education of practice RNs to encourage constantly increased understanding of clinical care of diabetes patients and support a clinical culture of well-informed and competent diabetes care in the FGP.
• Participates in maintaining optimum practice operations for the care of diabetic patients.
• Participates in clinical co-management with FGP physicians and other care providers. This includes making appropriate modifications of diabetes medical regimens, per FGP protocols, based on critical assessment of patient clinical factors and blood glucose data.
• Engages in a regular ongoing critical examination of diabetes educator practice and professional performance and makes recommendations to maintain the highest level of care and operations possible.
• Completes all required documents necessary for appropriate diabetes patient care.
• Ensures that the ADA certification standards are met and maintained at all times.
• Promote diabetes self-management education and training (DSME/T) as an integral part of diabetes care.
• Promotes documentation of the outcomes of DSME/T. Encourages research to validate practice and improve quality DSME/T and diabetes care.
• CDE scope of practice will include assessment, education, and appropriate therapeutic interventions and recommendations for all patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes as well as those with gestational diabetes, all patients who require education for unrelated conditions that affect blood glucose or require blood glucose monitoring such as hypoglycemia, patients on subcutaneous insulin pump therapy, and patients undergoing assessment with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).
• Develops and updates nutrition education manual for outpatient setting
• Develops and implements medically supervised physician-monitored weight management program as needed according to health plan requirements.
• Plans to evaluate and provide individual patient consultations and group education programs including nutrition consultation with family members, staff, and physicians.
• Documents consultations/education and provides follow updates to referring physicians.
• Attends and participates in community lectures as well as support groups.
• Participates and provides education programs for marketing, community benefit, and NYU staff education programs.
• Attends multidisciplinary patient care rounds and pertinent clinical meetings as required.
• Prescribes food and other nutrients including nutritional support per protocol or under the direction of the MD.
• Ensures that patients’ needs for special diets and altered meal schedules are met. Identifies patient diet knowledge deficits.
• Works with physicians and coordination instituting provisional status as a Center of excellence under the ASMS guidelines.
• Assists program development and marketing as needed.
• Manages and requests appropriate educational resources as required education program.
• Assists in tracking database outcomes and patient flow.
• Is involved in nutrition care planning across the Continuum of Care, including servicing patient dietary staff, providing preoperative and postoperative classes, and follow-up care one year postoperatively for patients.
• Implements performance improvement strategies as identified through review of program outcomes.