Registered Nurse, Diabetes program

Status

Full-Time

Standard Hours per Week

40

Job Posting Category

Nursing

Job Posting Description

The Diabetes Program at Boston Children’s Hospital is dedicated to empowering children and families to manage diabetes effectively and live healthy lives. We are one of the largest pediatric diabetes centers in North America. We treat infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with all types of diabetes, including:

• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes
• Treatment- and steroid-induced diabetes
• Monogenic diabetes

• Coordinating patient self-management initiatives in a family centric program for pediatric and adolescent patients in Boston Children’s Hospital’s Division of Endocrinology’s ADA recognized outpatient diabetes self-management education program. The program uses a multi-disciplinary approach in the management of children and adolescents with diabetes (Type 1, Type 2, steroid induced and cystic fibrosis related) and their families.
• Working with patients diagnosed with diabetes and their families, to facilitate improving self-management age specific goals for all patients; providing lifestyle coaching, and conducting one-on-one patient visits and group visits in a hospital clinic setting.
• Providing patient and family education; collaborating with outside community resources including but not limited to school and insurer-based case coordination services.
• Providing case management including oversight and interpretation of laboratory results for patients with diabetes; ordering of therapeutics, durable medical supplies and refills for prescription medications; as well as coordination of referrals and diagnostic studies as needed in consultation with the patient’s physician.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required.