The New Mexico VA Health Care System is looking for a Registered Nurse Diabetes Educator for our Care Navigation Operations Service!
The Diabetes Educator is responsible for providing expert, evidence-based diabetes education to staff and patients. Provides educational instruction and training for diabetic patients throughout the medical facility. The Diabetes Educator understands instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training. Demonstrates knowledge and application of professional standards related to patient diabetes care.
Performs learning needs assessments, develops educational trainings for patients and staff within organization. Develops entry level coaching and mentoring skills. Systematically evaluates current practice, formulate appropriate diabetic outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise.
Collaborates with other Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills. Acts as a consultant in patient diabetes care principles and performance measures.
Reviews current nursing literature for new diabetic trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes. Utilizes best practices and benchmarking to establish realistic goals for patient diabetes care initiatives.
Collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify diabetics educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking skills, and decision making. Provides consultation and collaboration through the participation within organizational committees. Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to diabetes educational programs.
Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Oscar.Anguiano@va.gov · 9097724391
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $75834 – $136857/yr.
Applications close on 2026-09-11.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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