New Treatment Choices Enhance Diabetes Care
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COURSE DESCRIPTION: As a health care provider, you feel the frustrations of shortened hospital stays and shorter appointment times. You need to ensure your client has all the tools they need to manage their diabetes care. You need strategies for helping patients effectively self-manage their diabetes, identifying potential problems and enhancing your skills for problem solving challenging situations. Innovative advances in diabetes care are evident in every dimension - new oral medications, new insulin, nutrition guidelines and choices, new glucose monitors, computer related technology, and new administration devices and aides. Preventing the onset of diabetes, especially among our nation’s youth, should be a high priority of care and education. Even more exciting is the concept of self-care and self-management as the basis for diabetes treatment and education in this age of managed care. This comprehensive diabetes seminar will provide a theoretical background and describe clinical applications to help you to better care for and promote a self-care model for diabetics. |
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
 | Review the alterations that happen to normal metabolism in type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the resulting possible complications. |
| Describe the effect of new diabetes treatment options as part of the fundamentals of diabetes management which includes healthy nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, and medication. |
| Discuss the importance of self care and self management as the basis for diabetes care and education. |
SAMPLE COURSE OUTLINE:
9:00 AM Introduction
Review of alterations in metabolism in type 1 and type 2 diabetes and possible complications
10:00 AM New treatment options
New insulins
New oral medications
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM More treatment options
Combination therapy
Carbohydrate/Insulin ratio
Insulin pumps/Insulin pens
11:30 AM The enhancing role of self care and self management
Evaluation
Course Presenter: Wini Schaedel, ARNP, MSN, CDE has been working in diabetes care for 13 years. She developed and coordinated the Partners In Care Diabetes Education program in Manhattan, Kansas which received recognition by the American Diabetes Association in 1993 and 1998. Wini is currently practicing at clinics in Salina, Hill City and Beloit in an advanced nurse practice role of diabetes management and education.
Contact Hours: Maurenne Griese, RNC, BSN, as a long term provider of continuing nursing education credit by the Kansas State Board Of Nursing, offers this program for 3 contact hours, applicable for RN and LPN relicensure. LT 0216-0972