How Sweet It Is! Management of Diabetes Series: Risk Reduction and Management of Complications with Diabetes Part 1

How Sweet It Is! Management of Diabetes Series: Risk Reduction and Management of Complications with Diabetes Part 1 is organized by PharmCon, Inc.

Release Date: Monday, July 23, 2018
Offline Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021
ACPE Expiration Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021

Credits: 1 Contact Hour(s)

Description:
Patients with diabetes often turn to their pharmacist for assistance in smoking cessation, therefore pharmacists need to be knowledgeable in this area. Patients with diabetes also have questions about impotence and sexual intimacy, traveling with diabetes, and the management of pain. This program seeks to aid healthcare professionals in counseling diabetes patients on these important lifestyle areas.

Objectives:
Nurse
• Explain the complexities linked with diabetes mellitus including macrovascular, microvascular and neuropathic.
• Describe strategies to minimize the complications of diabetes mellitus including health maintenance recommendations.
• Define strategies to contrive glucose intolerance before, during and after pregnancy

Pharmacist
• Specify the complications correlated with diabetes mellitus including macrovascular, microvascular and neuropathic.
• Define strategies to minimize the complications of diabetes mellitus including health maintenance recommendations.
• Demonstrate strategies to manage glucose intolerance before, during and after pregnancy

Pharmacy Technician
• Outline strategies to encourage smoking cessation in patients with diabetes.
• Explain factors for travel in patients with diabetes.
• Define the impact of diabetes on sexual intimacy for patients with diabetes.
• Enumerate the problems of pain with diabetes and risk mitigation and management strategies.