Diabetes Refresher Seminar
Also Known As: 'Nursing Management of People with Adult Diabetes'
10.50
CPD
Hours
10.50
RCNA
Points
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Seminar
Two Days
$473.00
All nurses who have not had a diabetes update in the past 18 months.
General Description
This program offers a forum for nurses to learn about contemporary nursing care and management of people affected by diabetes mellitus. It offers you an opportunity to review your current protocols relating to the administration of insulin, to know the correct method of measuring blood glucose, and other essential aspects of modern diabetes management. This program will be ideal for you if you have not had a formal diabetes update in the past 18 months. This conference is highly evaluated and not to be missed.
If you have identified a professional need to improve your understanding of diabetes as part of your planned learning activities, then this program will offer you an opportunity to gain continuing professional development (CPD) hours related to this topic.
Need for Program
As the incidence of diabetes increases worldwide, there is a huge shift towards prevention and minimisation of complications. At the same time, management of diabetes is ever-more complex and requires highly and recently educated nurses to deliver contextual care to those with established and advanced disease. Nurses are at the forefront of prevention and management and as such, need access to ongoing, relevant, high quality education about this complex chronic illness.
Nurses are required to obtain a minimum of 20 continuing professional development (CPD) hours, that relate to their context of practice, in order to comply with mandatory regulatory requirements.
Aims and Objectives
This program offers a forum for nurses to learn about modern, evidence-based care and management of people with diabetes. In particular, it aims to offer a clear explanation of the rationale underpining treatment regimens and why compliance is so important if complications are to be prevented. A further aim is to highlight preventative strategies, including a review of the symptomology of pre-diabetes, and the significance of its early identification.
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Recognise when a person has metabolic syndrome / pre-diabetes and develop an appropriate nursing care plan to prevent escalation of disease.
- Correctly perform a nursing assessment of a person who has suspected diabetes, including the proficient use of assessment tools such as blood glucose meters and monofilaments.
- Identify issues that will affect glycaemic control.
- Describe modern treatments for diabetes including the appropriate use of medicines and lifestyle changes.
The information below should be viewed as a general guide only as this seminar varies from state-to-state. Ausmed encourages you to download the printable brochure for a more accurate outline of each program.
8:30am - Registration and Refreshments
9:00am - Adult Diabetes - The Modern Scourge and Silent Epidemics
As the population of those affected with diabetes continues to increase, the demands on nurses to care for people with this complex chronic illness grows. This introductory session both sets the scene and contextualises the issues that nurses will need to deal with in order to adequately care for those with this pervasive disease.
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Is the incidence increasing within the Australian adult population?
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Why are members of indigenous communities so prone to developing this disease?
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What are the different types of this condition and the diagnostic criteria?
9:50am - Risk Factors
A look at risk factors associated with diabetes including both modifiable and non-modifiable problems.
10:30am - Morning Tea & Coffee
11:00am - Nutrition Essentials and Role of Activity
Two key areas are implicated in both the developement and management of diabetes. These are the areas of nutrition and human activity. This interesting session will examine the therapeautic role of nutrition and level of activity.
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What are the latest nutritional guidelines for patients diagnosed with diabetes?
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Practical, workable strategies for convincing overweight patients of the necessity to control their weight
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Do any of the commercially available 'fat control pills' work?
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Understanding that knowledge does not equal behavioural change
12:00pm - Assessment - The Golden Key to Person-Centred Management
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What is involved in the initial medical assessment activities, e.g. which investigations and why?
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An exploration of comprehensive nursing assessments and re-assessments as a foundation for designing appropriate care and management interventions
12:30pm - Lunch Break and Time to Network
1:30pm - Blood Glucose Monitoring
Blood Glucose Meters are management tools used to gain accurate feedback on blood glucose levels (BGLs). These machines are only as accurate as the operator using them. Information will be presented to help you ensure your meters are recording BGLs accurately.
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An overview of the times of testing, interpretation of results, recording of results, safety issues for staff and quality control testing of the meters.
2:00pm - Diabetes Medicines Update - Oral
This session looks at non-insulin medicines and how they combine with diet and exercise to control diabetes.
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Who benefits most from oral medicines?
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Are they suitable for all types of diabetes?
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How do these tablets work?
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What side effects should nurses be aware of?
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Are there any medicines that are likely to react with these drugs?
3:00pm - Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3:30pm - Diabetes Medicines Update - Oral Including Case Studies
A look at several complex case studies relating to the use of oral diabetes medicines.
4:15pm - Close of Day One of Seminar
Start of Day Two
9:00am - Diabetes Medicines Update - Injectable
For some people, oral medicines or lifestyle changes are not able to control diabetes. In such cases, injectable medicines become essential. This is an important area of nursing care and it is essential that nurses understand which injectable medicines are used and for what purpose and how they should be administered.
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What 'injectable' medicines are available for diabetes and why are they used?
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Which types of diabetes benefit most from injectable medicines?
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Which patients do not benefit from injectable medicines regardless of type?
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What are the different means of injecting the medicine?
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How do other injectable medicines interact (e.g. warfarin)?
10:30am - Morning Tea & Coffee
11:00am - Responding to Hypo/Hyperglycaemic Episodes
Experiencing a hypoglycaemic event can be very traumatic for a person. Prevention is paramount. This session discusses the role of the nurse in caring for people who have or are likely to experience, hypos or hyperglycaemic episodes.
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When to be concerned about hyperglycaemia.
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Actions to be taken whenever hypos/hypers occur.
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Discussion of ways of preventing episodes.
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Managing hypoglycaemia in the hospital setting.
12:00pm - Diabetes Complications
A session that briefly explores some of the more common types of complications associated with diabetes.
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What happens to the body at micro and vascular level and what are the implications of this?
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What nerve damage occurs in diabetes and how does this impact a person's ability to function?
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A nurses' role in detecting, treating and preventing further damage to the body.
1:00pm - Lunch Break & Browse the Book Display
2:00pm - Foot Care for the Person with Diabetes
The feet of people with diabetes are particularly prone to harm, due to a range of complex physiological changes that occur as a result of this disease. The following questions will be discussed in this informative session.
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Where a patient has diabetes, what pathophysiological changes can be expected in the lower limbs?
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Why does diabetes trigger intractable problems such as peripheral neuropathy?
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Discussion of the signs and symptoms of this complication.
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Can peripheral neuropathy be reversed?
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Guidelines for assessing, managing and monitoring a person's diabetic foot.
2:30pm - Motivation, Compliance and Psychosocial Challenges
When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, they are often required to make significant changes to their lifestyle. These changes are usually lifelong and may appear very difficult to the individual. These final, important sessions, will examine the implications for the patient as well as the nurse, when compliance is an issue.
What can be done about people who are resistive or who repeatedly revert to inappropriate routines and habits?
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Setting realistic goals and identifying problems for hte person with diabetes
Access to diabetes treatments and resources - who pays?
3:00pm - Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3:30pm - Motivation, Compliance and Psychosocial Challenges (cont.)
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How to encourage adults with diabetes to have their annual comprehsnive health review and check-up
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Which Medicare item numbers are available to GPs for providing diabetes and other services to those with diabetes?
4:00pm - Close of Seminar and Evaluations
Michelle RobinsMichelle is a Credentialled Diabetes Educator with 18 years experience in many aspects of diabetes care and education. In this role she is currently employed by Barwon Health in rural Victoria. Her past employment, as a Diabetes Educator, has included major tertiary hospital settings – including St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne Division of General Practice, Melbourne Extended Care and Rehabilitation Service and in Queensland, Logan/Beaudesert Health Service. Michelle is an endorsed Nurse Practitioner – Diabetes and is consistently highly evaluated in her teaching role.
Presenting in: WA, QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS,
Catherine Wallace-Wilkinson RNRegistered Nurse and a Credentialled Diabetes Educator who has worked in diabetes education since 1982 and is an active member of the Australian Diabetes Educators Association. In addition to a Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education, in 2003 Catherine qualified as a Credentialled Diabetes Educator. She has a demonstrated commitment to teaching about the contemporary realities of managing diabetes and preventing complications.
As well, she has a keen interest in Accelerated Learning and Neuro-Linguistic Programming and has studied extensively in facilitating group learning and training techniques. Catherine is consistently highly evaluated by those who attend her education sessions.
Jayne LehmannJayne is a Diabetes Nurse Specialist with 25 years experience in the care and education of people with diabetes. As a clinician, consultant, educator and innovator Jayne is known for her creative and practical approaches to the care of people with diabetes in a variety of practice
settings. She has also developed expertise in the diabetes care and education of people with intellectual disability.
Through her consultancy business, EdHealth Australia, Jayne has been involved in the development and
implementation of projects across Australia in acute, disability and aged care services, general practice, pharmacies, for government
departments, professional organisations and the pharmaceutical industry. Jayne has been a national leader in the evolution of private practice for diabetes educators in Australia and enjoys writing articles for publication, a skill she fine tuned during the eight years she was Managing Editor of the Australian Diabetes Educator magazine. Jayne is consistently highly evaluated for her engaging and effective teaching methods.
