Diabetes essentials - continuing professional development online

Published: 20 December 2012

Who is this learning for?

This learning resource is relevant to all registered nurses, student nurses, midwives and health visitors, health care assistants (HCAs) and assistant practitioners working in any health care setting or nursing specialism. The aim is to provide you with an overview of diabetes and to provide some guidelines on treating patients with this condition as part of the nursing team. There are also some scenarios that look at different situations involving diabetes.

Learning outcomes

After completing the sections in this learning, the learner should be able to:

• Explain the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
• Describe the tests that need to be done to diagnose diabetes.
• Identify three common signs and symptoms of diabetes.
• Explain the long term effects of the non treatment of diabetes.
• Describe three ways to support a person to self manage their diabetes.
• Describe what to do in an emergency situation (hypoglycaemic or hyperglycaemic episode) involving a person with diabetes.

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