Study Guide: Diabetes Management in Long-Term Settings: A Clinician's Guide to Optimal Care for the Elderly

This continuing education activity, Diabetes Management in Long-Term Settings, consists of a book of the same title by Linda B. Haas and Sandra Drozdz Burke and this study guide. This activity is designed to help you apply current practices and recommendations for the treatment and care of residents of long-term care facilities who have diabetes. It is also designed to help you earn 20 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:

  1. Discuss target A1C and target glucose ranges for older adults with diabetes in long-term care (LTC) settings based on current recommendations.
  2. Recommend a diabetes meal plan prescription for older adults in LTC settings.
  3. Evaluate blood glucose and food intake records using pattern management techniques to recommend modifications to a basal/bolus insulin regime to achieve glucose goals.
  4. Suggest medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and treatment strategies to prevent recurrent hypoglycemia in the LTC resident.
  5. Assess various physiological and physical factors that can lead to dehydration in elderly adults with diabetes, prevention strategies, and treatment options.
  6. Outline the responsibilities of the food service department, nursing staff, and registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) in enhancing nutritional intake and clinical outcomes of MNT for LTC residents with diabetes.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 20.00 CDR
Course opens: 
08/16/2024
Course expires: 
08/15/2027
Cost:
$185.95
Rating: 
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Susan Burke March has made her personal passion for healthy living and smart weight management her vocation. For more than 30 years, she was a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator, now retired. Susan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in nutrition and education from Queens College, City University of New York, and advanced certificates of training in Adult Weight Management (Levels 1 and 2) and Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. She served as Chief Clinical Nutrition Manager at Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens, New York. 

Susan is the former Vice President of Nutrition and Chief Nutritionist for eDiets.com, an online weight management program leader. She led the nutritional development of a roster of healthy weight programs and spearheaded the development of unprecedented features and services today commonplace in the industry. Susan served on the board of the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and as a spokesperson for the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.  

She currently lives in Valencia, Spain, where she volunteers as the Country Representative to Spain for the International Affiliate of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAAND) and serves on the board of the International Women’s Club Valencia.


Disclosures:
Susan Burke March, MSEd, faculty for this activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

The planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company (publisher of Wolf Rinke Associates) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).


RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Available Credit

  • 20.00 CDR

Price

Cost:
$185.95
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