HealthCare Professional Education Sessions

DCPNS Insulin Pump Education Day 2024 was held on Thursday, March 7, 2024.

For video recordings from DCPNS Insulin Pump Education Day 2022 & 2023, please see Current Practices in Diabetes Management & After a Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis linked below.

Recorded session dated February 21, 2024, aimed at enhancing the understanding of diabetes and its management among nurses and healthcare professionals, in order to best support patients and families living with and affected by diabetes. Presented by Ciara Stevens, RN, CDE, and Jess Pearson, RN, (c) CCHN, CDE.

The session spans approximately 70 minutes and covers the following topics:

• Basics of diabetes pathophysiology
• Glucose monitoring patterns and tips
• Medications / insulins
• Hypoglycemia
• Management of type 1 diabetes & type 2 diabetes, inpatient and community focus
• Questions, case studies

April 28, 2023, recording from the Diabetes Canada | Diabetes Frontline Forum aimed at focusing upon what happens after a person is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Presented by Ciara Stevens, RN, CDE. 

This session is approximately 35 minutes and covers the following objectives: 

1. Increased understanding of the transition points within care. 
2. Understand the importance of addressing and acknowledging the stigma, shame, diabetes distress, and sense of fatalism that a person living with type 2 diabetes may experience.
3. Leave session with practical pearls to set people with diabetes up for success after a type 2 diagnosis.