Diabetes education for health professionals

Name: Diabetes education for health professionals
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Manual guide for diabetes educator

Created byShimaa Elsayed Ahmed

Last updated 4/2020

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What you'll learn

Diabetic education
How to help your patients with diabetes to manage their disease and improve their quality of life

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 2h 6m total length

Introduction2:32
Empower health professionals to support lifelong diabetes self-management through collaborative education that builds knowledge, skills, and behaviors to prompt sustained behavior change and better outcomes.
Lecture 2:Diabetes self management education10:50
Master the seven self-care behaviors—healthy eating, being active, monitoring, taking medications, reducing risk, problem solving, healthy coping—and the five-step education process—assessment, goal setting, planning, implementation, evaluation—in collaboration with caregivers.
Lecture 3: Healthy eating19:16
Explore individualized medical nutrition therapy for diabetes, including energy balance, carbohydrate portions and sources, fiber, protein, fats, sodium, and alcohol, plus exercise guidance and assessment.
Lecture 4: Medication Part 18:06
Explore how type 2 diabetes medications target insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity, and glucose absorption in the gut and kidney to lower blood sugar, with dosing, timing, and hypoglycemia risk.
Lecture 5: Medication Part 26:01
Explore diabetes medications including DPP-4 inhibitors, SGLT2 inhibitors, and GLP-1 receptor agonists, detailing doses, actions, adverse effects, and strategies to improve adherence.
Lect 6: Injection Technique15:52
Learn step-by-step injection techniques for receptor agonists and insulin therapy, including prepare, mix, inject, needle sizing (5–6 mm), site rotation, hold time, and storage.
Lecture 7: Antihypertensive Medication in Diabetes8:53
Explore commonly used antihypertensive medications for diabetes, targets for blood pressure and lipids, and how ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and statins fit into cardiovascular risk management.
Lecture 8: Self monitoring11:46
Explore self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes as a team-based, education-supported practice that guides lifestyle decisions, regimens, and prompt actions to optimize glycemic control.
Lecture 9: Implementation of self monitoring11:47
Learn how to implement self-monitoring of blood glucose, perform capillary testing correctly, interpret results, and act on data with individualized targets plus lifestyle and blood pressure monitoring.
Lecture 10: Risk reduction25:03
Explore risk reduction strategies for cardiovascular disease, retinopathy, nephropathy, and foot complications. Apply patient-centered planning, monitoring, and education to improve blood pressure, lipids, and lifestyle changes.
Lecture 11: Behavioral intervention6:42
Apply behavioral intervention to diabetes care by identifying target behaviors, using stages of change to guide readiness and confidence, and co-creating smart goals and follow-up plans for self-management.

Requirements

To be a health care professional

Description

This course is designed to help health professionals who want to develop skills in diabetes education , you will be able to manage your educational sessions and help your patients. One approach to empower people with diabetes is by creating access, training and support for diabetes self-management education (DSME). DSME is defined as “collaborative process through which people with or at risk for diabetes gain the knowledge and skills needed to modify behavior and successfully self-manage the disease and its related conditions”. DSME has been shown to be associated with improved diabetes outcomes, reduced diabetes complications and decrease in healthcare costs. It is still a common impression that diabetes education means transfer of information/ knowledge from healthcare professionals to people with diabetes using the compliance/ adherence model. Over the past decades, it became clear that while knowledge is an essential prerequisite for self-care, knowledge alone is not enough to promote behavior change. In response to a growing body of evidence, there has been a paradigm shift from the didactic (lecture) teaching style of self-management skills to a patient centered facilitation approach that encourages empowerment and self-efficacy to promote behavior change. Behavior change is the unique outcome criterion for effective diabetes education. It is critical that the person with diabetes (and caregivers) has the knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to successfully manage the disease.

Who this course is for:

This course is suitable for all healthcare professionals , Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers