• Understand the available technologies for testing glycemic control
• Discuss the techniques for assessing glycemic patterns
• Identify the Standards of Diabetes Care; and nderstand the essential components of Diabetes Self Management Education (DSME).

• Identify the causes, symptoms, treatment and nursing implications of chronic diabetes-related complications
• Verbalize American Diabetes Assn (ADA) recommendations for complication prevention
• Understand the ADA recommendations for Standards of Care for Diabetes

The purpose of this program is to educate the learner about diabetic wounds and management.  After studying the information presented here,you will be able to-

• Understand causes of diabetic foot ulcers
• Gain skill in assessment of neuropathic wounds
• Become familiar with some of the treatment modalities for neuropathic wounds

The purpose of this program is to educate the learner about exercise and cultural issues in diabetes.  After studying the information presented here,you will be able to-

• Describe the benefits of exercise
• State the diabetes-related exercise precautions and guidelines for starting an exercise regimen and for diabetes-related complications
• Assess cultural issues related to diabetes care
• Identify pros and cons of complimentary alternative therapies for diabetes
• State the requirements for becoming a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE)

The purpose of this program is to educate the learner about hospitalization and lifespan issues in diabetes.   After studying the information presented here,you will be able to-

• Recommendations of older adults, adolescents, pre-conception and pregnancy and pediatric guidelines
• Understand the importance of assessing for depression
• Assess the psychosocial response to the diagnosis of diabetes
• State the glycemic effect of stress & strategies for stress reduction; and explain travel recommendations

• Physiologic role of insulin
• Types of insulins and other injectable medications
• Selection criteria, administration, action and precautions of injectable medications

The purpose of this program is to educate the learner about medical nutrition therapy in diabetes.  After studying the information presented here, you will be able to - 

• Participant will be able to identify essential elements of effective  therapeutic diabetes dietary strategies including: American Diabetes Association (ADA) nutrition recommendations
• Dietary carbohydrate modification
• Heart Healthy diabetes diet; alcohol use
• Protein as an essential diet component
• Principles of weight management

• Understand the individual and societal consequences of childhood obesity
• Recognizing importance of implementing IHP for obese students
• Be able to teach and promote proper lifestyle changes in the school environment
• Understand types of childhood diabetes and treatment and monitoring required

• The 6 Classes of oral agents for diabetes
• Selection criteria, action and precautions for each class of oral agent
• Medications given for other conditions that can change the efficacy of diabetes medications

• Verbalize diagnostic criteria for the types diabetes mellitus
• Understand the complexity of the physiologic factors related to blood glucose control
• Distinguish between the different types of diabetes
• Verbalize glycemic targets of American Diabetes Association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American Association of Diabetes Educators

• Define the difference between acute and chronic wounds
• Describe the phases of wound healing
• Define the cellular components involved in wound healing
• Illustrate the process of scarring; and describe factors that impair wound healing

• Define bioburden
• Illustrate the process of a wound becoming infected
• Define biofilm
• Illustrate some ways to culture wounds
• List some ways to topically treat wounds