According to the National Credentialing Board for Diabetes Educators, (NCBDE) the  CDCES® Exam Content Outline will be updated starting July 1^st, 2019.

To celebrate this update, we will be basing our 2019 Questions of the Week on this content outline. (See a snippet of the NCBDE content outline to the left or click on it to see the complete outline.)

Question of the Week – January 22nd, 2019

These targeted questions are designed to help assess your knowledge on the topics critical to diabetes educators.

In addition, if you are preparing to take the exam, we strongly encourage you to go through each of these sub-categories and rate your knowledge on a scale of 1-5.  Based on this self-assessment, spend the majority of your study time on the topic areas you are least comfortable with. This approach will help you become familiar with the exam content and to use your limited study time wisely.

Assessment of the Diabetes Continuum – Learning  

For this question in this series, we focus on the Assessment Section, under learning. Here is the question that addresses learning goals and needs of the learner. Good luck!

To learn more about exam success, please join us live or watch now Free Preparing for CDCES® Webinar airing on Feb 1, 2019.

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Preparing for the BCADM Exam – What you need to know

NEW! Question of the Week will now reflect the 2019 CDCES®* Exam Content Outline

According to the National Credentialing Board for Diabetes Educators, (NCBDE) the  CDCES® Exam Content Outline will be updated starting July 1^st, 2019.

To celebrate this update, we will be basing our 2019 Questions of the Week on this content outline. (See a snippet of the NCBDE content outline to the left or click on it to see the complete outline.)

Question of the Week – January 15th, 2019

These targeted questions are designed to help assess your knowledge on the topics critical to diabetes educators.

In addition, if you are preparing to take the exam, we strongly encourage you to go through each of these sub-categories and rate your knowledge on a scale of 1-5.  Based on this self-assessment, spend the majority of your study time on the topic areas you are least comfortable with. This approach will help you become familiar with the exam content and to use your limited study time wisely.

Assessment of the Diabetes Continuum – Learning  

For this first question in this series, we start in the Assessment Section, under learning. Here is the question that addresses learning goals and needs of the learner. Good luck!

ML has a 6-year-old daughter with newly diagnosed type 1.  ML wants to learn what to do in case her daughter gets the flu and is vomiting.  What is the diabetes educator’s best response?

a.       It sounds like you are worried about what to do if your daughter gets sick.

b.       Let’s start with the basics of meal planning first.

c.       Getting the flu can be scary. Have you been tracking ML’s blood sugars?

d.       Here is a handout that reviews sick day management in detail.

Question of the Week – January 15th, 2019

To learn more about exam success, please join us live or watch now Free Preparing for CDCES® Webinar airing on Feb 1, 2019.

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It’s that time of year where people are flooding into gyms to start working on their new years resolutions. However, researchers have found that most people tend to give up on their resolutions by February. How can you bridge the divide between intention and doing?

Here are some tips to help turn 2019 resolutions into long-lasting habits and to get past the February funk:

1. Give it time. It takes a while for something new to become habitual. A study conducted at Wharton School paid a group of individuals to exercise for a period of 28 days. They found that most of these people stuck with these habits after the study was over. Milkman, the head researcher on the study, states, “The key to habit is repetition. If you can get that repetition going while you have high motivation, you are much more likely to have a behavior change that lasts.”
2. Set realistic goals. Make sure that the goals you set are small, incremental, and achievable. Many individuals tend to set unrealistic goals and then give up on the whole thing when they are unable to achieve them.
3. Make physical activity social. Tackling fitness goals with another individual tends to increase productivity as well as longevity. So grab a friend and work on your goals together!
4. Change the mindset. Many people start their fitness journey with only one goal: weight loss. While it is okay to have a goal like this, don’t let it be the driving force. Instead, choose performance based goals. For example, try to improve on your mile time, squat more weight than you did last time, or try to finally be able to do the splits. With these kinds of goals, the aesthetics will still be achieved but your attitude and love towards working out will drastically change.

For more information on this topic, check out the article “How to make exercise a habit that sticks.”

Contributed by: Sofia Sepulveda

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Making a Difference Scholarship | Diabetes Educator Course

A new study finds that teenagers whose families eat dinner together are more likely to make better food choices, regardless of the family’s communication skills. 

The study suggest regardless of the how well the family functions, when you are bringing a family together for a meal you are often considering the adolescent’s nutrition. This leads to setting a healthy example for children and continued nutrition awareness into adulthood.

“Many, many studies have looked at the benefit of family meals, and over and over they have found that this leads to adolescents eating more fruits and vegetables and less fast food and sugar-sweetened beverages,” said Walton, now a research fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Critics of the study suggest the dysfunction of the family would lead to less meals together and it would effect the nutritional value of the food in the house all together. However, researchers found that the more teens ate dinner with their family, the more fruits and vegetables were included in their diet. 

There are many benefits to eating a quality meal with family. Kathryn Walton, who was a doctoral student at the University of Guelph, Canada, presents ways in which parents can make family dinner a priority even with a busy schedule. Including your teens in meal prep as well as making dinner a more casual affair can help increase the frequency. 

This simple idea, can have a big impact on health! 

Learn more: Even when families have issues, eating together can improve teen diets – Reuters

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New 2019 ADA Standards, From Meds to Technology – January Newsletter

by Coach Beverly
Beverly Thomassian, RN, MPH, CDCES, BC-ADM

January Newsletter now available!

For this newsletter, we provide highlights to the 2019 Standards, discuss our Question of the Week, reveal some study tips for the 2019 CDCES Examination, revisit the cost of insulin and share some of our most popular blog posts. Articles include:

• ADA Standards of Care From Meds to Technology, Compliance to Patient-Centered
• ADA Standard 9: Pharmacologic Management
• New ADA Standard 7: Diabetes Technologies
• CDCES Exam 2019 Updates
• Making a Difference Scholarship
• and more!

Click here to read our newsletter!

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