Role of the Diabetes Educator in Inpatient Diabetes Management.

Diabetes nurse educator course:from develop to perform

Introduction:The first short term special course was held named as “diabetes educator nurse”. This article brifely reavealed the process of designing, performing and executive challenges of the course. Methods: Due to lack of previous history of courses for training diabetes nurse educator in Iran, wide literature review was done on credible sources. Mission, goals, course content, and trainin...

Diabetes educator role boundaries in Australia: a documentary analysis

BACKGROUND Diabetes educators provide self-management education for people living with diabetes to promote optimal health and wellbeing. Their national association is the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA), established in 1981. In Australia the diabetes educator workforce is a diverse, interdisciplinary entity, with nurses, podiatrists, dietitians and several other health professi...

Evolving roles: from diabetes educators to advanced diabetes managers.

Virginia Valentine, CNS, BC-ADM, CDE; Karmeen Kulkarni, MS, RD, BC-ADM, CDE; and Debbie Hinnen, ARNP, BC-ADM, CDE The evolution of advanced practice in diabetes management has emulated the advanced practice efforts of nursing groups. However, many disciplines are involved in the care and education of people with diabetes. This article reviews the expanded role of health professionals in diabete...

Rush University guidelines and protocols for the management of hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients: elimination of the sliding scale and improvement of glycemic control throughout the hospital.

The management of inpatient hyperglycemia has received much recent attention because of an expanding literature supporting the benefits of quality improvement and the creation of guidelines in this area. The authors began a process in 2002 to create modern protocols for glycemic control with intravenous insulin in their intensive care units and with subcutaneous basal-prandial insulin in all of...

AADE position statement. Individualization of diabetes self-management education.