Diabetes: The Basics
June 6, 2023Engage patients with diabetes videos and resources on a broad range of topics including monitoring, medication management, lifestyle modification and avoiding complications.
Diabetes educators play a critical role in providing diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES). DSMES is not only in important component of patient care and recovery, but it’s essential in reducing healthcare costs for systems, payers, employers, and patients.
With a comprehensive library of diabetes-focused patient education videos and resources—including resources that have been reviewed by and/ or co-produced with the American Association of Diabetes Educators—healthcare professionals and diabetes educators can leverage our award-winning education and on our easily-integrated delivery technologies to activate and engage patients by providing the knowledge and skills they need to manage their health.
Our Diabetes the Basics solution, designed especially for diabetes educators across the care continuum, provides educational resources, delivery platforms and EMR integration to effectively engage patients in ongoing disease management.
Recommended Patient Education Videos & Resources
- Diabetes Library: Understanding diabetes, nutrition, exercises, medications, monitoring, complications, behavior change, emotions
- Quality of Care Library: Patient safety, fall prevention, preventing infections, sepsis prevention, VRE, C. diff prevention, urinary catheter: how to prevent infection, hand washing, MRSA prevention, preventing blood stream infections, infection control, preventing IV-related infections, medications management, preventing surgical site infections, surgery, and hospital discharge
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Wellness Library: smoking cessation, nutrition, and fitness
Given common co-morbidities, consider including the following libraries as well:
- Cardiology Library: Primary and secondary prevention, heart failure, stroke, arrhythmias, heart surgery, heart attack, cardiac rehabilitation
- Nephrology Library: Chronic kidney disease
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