For Health Care Professionals
As a diabetes educator and healthcare professional, you communicate large amounts of complex information to patients with diabetes and help them learn the skills needed to manage their disease on a daily basis.
Diabetes educators work in a variety of settings and teach in many different formats—but one thing is the same: the need for useful, versatile, high-quality teaching tools and information to pass on to your patients.
That's why the American Association of Diabetes Educators developed this patient-friendly website to provide an overview of diabetes complications and the AADE7™ Self-Care Behaviors.
To accompany the information on this website, we have developed the following tools:
- The Diabetes Education Prompt Deck – a series of cards used to facilitate group classes by prompting discussions, questions and activities about diabetes self-management.
- The Educator Guide – written by diabetes educators currently in practice, this guide provides tips for using the Prompt Deck, answers, discussion cues, and commentary to accompany the cards, and points out further helpful resources.
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Patient Handouts – three handouts can be downloaded from this site to use with patients in a diabetes education session to reinforce the lessons learned.
- Know Your Numbers to Prevent Complications – A quick reference guide for general targets for diabetes tests
- Targeting Good Health: Test your knowledge – An informal worksheet to test patient's knowledge of diabetes tests and the recommended targets
- Setting Goals for Success – A handy guide to encourage goal-setting in each of the AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors
These tools are meant to be resources for you, the healthcare professional, to use in your diabetes education sessions. Please note that it is not exhaustive and does not provide all the answers or cover all the topics that you will address in your diabetes education classes.
