Diabetes Education from Riverside
Educational Classes offered by Riverside Diabetes Wellness Center
BASICS
- Describe the diabetes disease process and treatment options
- Diabetes management
- Incorporate appropriate nutrition management
CARBOHYDRATE COUNTING
- Carbohydrate counting
- Insulin:carb ratio
- Intensive insulin therapy
CGMS TRAINING
- Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
HEALTH AND DIABETES
- Diabetes management
- Goal setting to promote health
- Incorporate physical activity into lifestyle
- Integrate psychosocial adjustment for daily living
- Monitor blood glucose and use the results to improve control
- Prevent, detect, and treat acute complications
- Problem solving for daily living
- Utilize medications, if applicable, for therapeutic effectiveness
INSULIN TEACHING
- Signs and symptoms of high blood sugar
- Signs and symptoms of low blood sugar
- Treatment of hyperglycemia
- Treatment of hypoglycemia
- When to call doctor
- Hypoglycemia unawareness
- Insulin action/type/dose
- Insulin administration: withdrawal, injection, site rotation, disposal
METER TEACHING
- Monitor blood glucose and use the results to improve control
- Pattern management
MNT
- Incorporate appropriate nutrition management
MNT FOLLOW-UP
- Incorporate appropriate nutrition management
PREGNANCY
- Management during pregnancy
REFRESHER
- Describe the diabetes disease process and treatment options
- Diabetes management
- Goal setting to promote health
- Incorporate appropriate nutrition management
- Incorporate physical activity into lifestyle
- Integrate psychosocial adjustment for daily living
- Monitor blood glucose and use the results to improve control
- Prevent, detect, and treat acute complications
- Prevent, detect, and treat chronic complications through risk reduction
- Problem solving for daily living
- Utilize medications, if applicable, for therapeutic effectiveness
GESTATIONAL NUTRITION
- Incorporate appropriate nutrition management
- Strategies for dealing with morning sickness
- Calories 1st trimester
- Calories 2nd trimester
- Calories during lactation
- Artificial sweeteners
GESTATIONAL SKILLS
- Definition of GDM
- Risks to mom and baby
- Target bg goals
- When to SBGM
- Maternal and fetal tests
- Urine ketone testing
- Hgb A1C
- When to call MD
- Signs, symptoms and treatment of hypoglycemia
- Signs, symptoms and treatment of hyperglycemia
- Insulin action/type/dose
- Insulin administration, withdrawal, site rotation and disposal
- Problems with use of OHA during pregnancy
- Foot, skin, dental care
- Risk factors: smoking and alcohol
- Benefits and precautions: exercise
- Individualized exercise plan
- Symptoms and treatment of chronic complications
- Coping/behavior change
- Health and community resources
- Labor and delivery
- Future risks to baby and mom
- Healthy lifestyle/follow-up test
- Breast feeding
INSULIN PUMP INSTRUCTION
- Download pump
- Review/interpret data
- Insulin:carb ratio
- Review sensitivity/correction factor
- DKA prevention
- Ketone testing
- Frequency of monitoring
- Pump adjustments if ordered by PCP
ADVANCED NUTRITION
- Carbohydrate counting
- Label reading
- Eating out
- Holidays and special occasions
- Benefit of fiber
- Grocery shopping
- Developed diabetes support plan and communicated with referring physician
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The American Diabetes Association Recognizes this education service as meeting the National Standard for Diabetes Self-Management Education. |
Riverside Medical Center
Diabetes Wellness Center
100 Fitness Drive
Bourbonnais, IL 60914
(815) 936-6515
Mon-Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
