Women & Meds Management Webinars | Ready for Viewing
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Perfect for those planning to take CDCES or seeking an update.
Coach Beverly is updating her Level 2 Standards of Care Intensive Courses.
The Women with Diabetes webinar is completed revised for 2020, with a focus on detecting and managing gestational diabetes and diabetes in pregnancy.
Medication Management includes important 2020 updates. We include a critical review of existing medications and instructions on how to use the ADA or AACE Algorithms as a roadmap in clinical practice.
We hope you can join us! Coach Beverly
Women & Diabetes | Ready for Viewing
1.5 CEs | $29.00 or No CEs | Free
Women with diabetes are confronted with a variety of issues that require special attention, education, and understanding. This online course reviews those special needs while focusing on Gestational Diabetes and Pre-Existing Diabetes. Included are the most recent diagnostic criteria, management goals, and prevention of complications during pregnancy.
Topics include:
- Three issues that affect women with diabetes
- The unique attributes of pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy and gestational diabetes
- Diagnostic criteria and management goals for gestational diabetes
- Prevention measures to keep mother and baby healthy
View FREE recorded webinar (no CEs).
Meds Management for Type 2 | Ready for Viewing
1.5 CE | $29.00 or No CEs | Free
Have you heard a novel insulin formulation was FDA approved this week? What is all the news about metformin? How do we know which diabetes medication to start or add next?
Join Coach Beverly RN, MPH, CDCES, BC-ADM for an intensive live course that weeds out fact from fiction while detailing the latest diabetes medications and management algorithms.
During this live stream webinar, we will discuss diabetes medication benefits, considerations and critical information to share with people with diabetes and providers.
Coach Beverly will highlight the key elements of the latest Medication Guidelines by AACE and ADA. We will explore clinical factors to consider when determining the best strategy to improve glucose management in people with type 2 diabetes and discuss new medications.
Topics include:
- Overview of classes and actions of diabetes medications
- Medication updates and new recommendations
- Using the ADA/AACE algorithms to improve diabetes care and outcomes
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Accreditation: Diabetes Education Services is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider 12640, and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), Provider DI002. Since these programs are approved by the CDR it satisfies the CE requirements for the CDCES regardless of your profession.*
The use of DES products does not guarantee the successful passage of the CDCES exam. CBDCE does not endorse any preparatory or review materials for the CDCES exam, except for those published by CBDCE.
June Newsletter | Strategies to Provide Inclusive Care
Diabetes and Inclusivity – Strategies for Change
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Our community has faced many challenges in 2020. As a result of the pandemic, some health professionals have lost their positions or had jobs furloughed. We have shifted from in-person visits to telehealth. For those working on the front line, there is a real fear of being infected by COVID-19.
In our neighborhoods, we are witnessing many of our community members demanding a repair of social injustices. There is a recognition that worse health outcomes with COVID-19 and diabetes are often the result of longstanding social inequities in marginalized communities.
As diabetes advocates, we owe ourselves the time to reflect on how these inequities came to be and how we can contribute to their repair.
Certainly, as a community dedicated to health, we can stand up and acknowledge, address, and advocate to improve health equity for each person.
In this newsletter, we explore strategies to provide more inclusive diabetes care. From reflecting on the language we choose to how we set up and deliver our health care services. Let’s step back and take a new view from a different lens and see how we can be more welcoming to all people, but especially to those from marginalized communities.
We also celebrate the 2021 Medicare Cap on the monthly cost of insulin and share a warning on some brands of metformin. Lastly, we dive deep into two of our Questions of the Week and provide rationales.
Please consider joining Coach Beverly for her ADA Standard Intensive Live Stream Webinar Series (below). We invite you to join us for free as our guest. We want to make sure that everyone has access to this critical information.
Coach Beverly
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Upcoming Live Streaming Webinar
Airs June 23, 2020 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (PST)
Our Level 2 Standards of Care Intensive Series is designed to engage students in deciphering and exploring the ADA Standards of Care from top to bottom. This straight forward program will provide you with information you can use in your clinical setting and also provides critical content for the diabetes educator exam.
Mastery of this content is critical to ensure certification exam success and to improve clinical outcomes.
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Accreditation: Diabetes Education Services is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider 12640, and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), Provider DI002. Since these programs are approved by the CDR it satisfies the CE requirements for the CDCES regardless of your profession.*
The use of DES products does not guarantee the successful passage of the CDCES exam. CBDCE does not endorse any preparatory or review materials for the CDCES exam, except for those published by CBDCE.
Medical Nutrition Therapy + Meal Planning | Virtual Course with Dana Armstrong | 4.0 CEs
Diabetes Intensive with Dana Armstrong, RD, CDCES | Medical Nutrition Therapy + Meal Planning
Join Dana Armstrong, RD, CDCES, a trailblazer and thought leader, for a lively and intensive review of the latest in Medical Nutrition Therapy with immediate application to your clinical practice.
Dana combines the newest findings, her clinical experiences, plus the ADA Standards of Care into an action-packed presentation that will inform your practice while preparing for the certification exam.
Virtual MNT Course Dates:
Session 1 May 27 | Medical Nutrition Therapy Overview | Ready for Viewing!
Session 2 May 27| Meal Planning – How to Eat by the Numbers | Ready for Viewing!
$69 | Earn 4.0 CEs
Course Description: These two 2-hour courses review the latest national nutrition guidelines and provide strategies to translate this information to an individual living with diabetes.
Included is a discussion on different approaches to meal planning and the benefits and limitations of each. Dana will also review metabolic surgery, gastroparesis, and disordered eating.
She reviews nutrition approaches during pregnancy and for those living with chronic co-conditions. Dana also provides insights on how to support the transition to healthier eating using a “tasteful” approach.
Objectives:
- Prioritize person-centered nutrition issues based on assessment and clinic data.
- Explore national guidelines for medical nutrition therapy and how to individualize interventions from a person-centered perspective.
- Describe the impact of micro and macronutrients on health.
- List different meal planning approaches and the pros and cons of each.
- Describe how to help people with diabetes to read labels and be thoughtful consumers.
- State how to customize nutritional approaches in people living with complications of diabetes.
Speaker Bio for Dana Armstrong, RD, CDCES
We are thrilled to welcome our guest speaker, Dana Armstrong, who will be joining our Virtual and Live Courses!
Dana received her degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of California, Davis, and completed her internship in dietetics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Dana is the Medical Clinic Director of The Diabetes Center/Salinas Valley Medical Clinic. She provides leadership for the Department of Diabetes Services and ensures coordination and integration of an effective system-wide Diabetes Center of Excellence across the organization for optimum patient care and collaboration of services. Having a child with diabetes, she combines her professional knowledge with personal experience and understanding.
These sessions are also included in our Virtual Conference.
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Accreditation: Diabetes Education Services is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider 12640, and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), Provider DI002. Since these programs are approved by the CDR it satisfies the CE requirements for the CDCES regardless of your profession.*
The use of DES products does not guarantee the successful passage of the CDCES exam. CBDCE does not endorse any preparatory or review materials for the CDCES exam, except for those published by CBDCE.
Standards of Care 2020 Update
This time of year is always exciting as the new ADA Standards of Care are released.
The 2020 version incorporates these 2019 Living Standard Updates, along with a lot of additional information that impacts our practice.
Here are some highlights that particularly caught my attention:
- The Intensifying Injectables Algorithm for Type 2 was simplified and now includes instruction on using NPH in clinical practice.
- There is continued enhancement of the Cardiovascular Standard which provides intensive guidelines to improve care and reduce mortality from heart disease.
- The Microvascular Complication section was updated and new charts were added to clarify screening and diagnostic guidelines.
- In the children and adolescent section, detailed and updated information on cardiovascular risk management, screening and pharmacologic approaches were added.
- The Diabetes Technology section was re-organized and updated in an effort to keep up with the rapid pace of new tech tools that individuals are using to improve diabetes care.
Want more details on the 2020 Standards?
Those are just some of the highlights,but there is so much more to discover. Please join Coach Beverly on January 21st at 11:30 for her annual State of the Standards Live Webinar.
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For more information read our January News Updates – Now Available!
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2019 ADA Meds Management Update
Standards of Care Section 9 – Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment
Insulin Therapy for Type 1
This updated version of Meds Management includes more detailed information on insulin therapy for Type 1s. They note that the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) demonstrated that intensive therapy with multiple daily injections or insulin pump therapy reduced A1C and was associated with improved long-term outcomes. The study used short-acting and intermediate-acting human insulins. Since DCCT, rapid-acting and long-acting insulin analogs have been developed. These analogs are associated with less hypoglycemia, less weight gain, and lower A1C than human insulins in people with type 1 diabetes.
Type 2 Management Strategies – Pharmacologic Therapy of Type 2 Diabetes – 2019
Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment 2019. This hyperglycemia road map details strategies to achieve glucose control for both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. Section 9 of Standards of Care, January 2019.
Step 1 –
According to the ADA 2019 Standards, section 9, Metformin therapy should be started along with lifestyle management at diagnosis of type 2 Diabetes (unless contraindicated). Metformin is effective, safe, inexpensive and may reduce risk of CV events and death. If contraindicated, see figure 9.1 for alternatives.
Step 2
If A1c target is not achieved after 3 months, consider metformin and any one of the six preferred treatment options based on drug specific effects and patient factors. These factors include cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), congestive heart failure (CHF) or Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Plus, preventing hypoglycemia, weight gain and making sure medications are affordable.
If the patient has ASCVD, CHF or CKD, consider adding a second agent with evidence of cardiovascular risk reduction (based on drug specific effects and patient factors).
Medications indicated to improve CVD, CHF and CKD outcomes include:
- SGLT-2 Inhibitors – empagliflozin (Jardiance), canagliflozin (Invokana), dapagliflozin (Farxiga)
- GLP-1 Receptor Agonist – liraglutide (Victoza), semaglutide (Ozempic)
Step 3
If A1c target is still not achieved after 3 months, combine metformin plus two other agents for a three-drug combination. Drug choice should be based on avoidance of side effects such as hypoglycemia, weight gain, cost, and individual preference.
Step 4
If A1c target is still not achieved after 3 months, add combination injectable therapy to the three-drug combination.
For all steps, consider including medications with evidence of CV risk reduction, based on drug specific effects and patient factors.
Medication Therapy Based on A1c
- Upon initial diagnosis of type 2, most can consider monotherapy
- If A1c is greater than or equal to 1.5% above target, consider dual therapy
- If A1c is greater or equal to 10%, or if BG 300 or more, or pt is markedly symptomatic (polyuria/polydipsia), consider insulin and injectable therapy.
Want to learn more about this topic?
- Meds Management Update Ready for On Demand Viewing!
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