- Credit Type: Other
- Credit Amount: 1.00
- Cost: Free
- Release: Jul 5, 2023
- Expires: Jul 4, 2026
- Estimated Time to Complete:
1 Hour(s) -
Average User Rating:
( Ratings)
Faculty
![Leslie K. Scott](https://www.cecentral.com/uploads/faculty/95829-1237827251.jpg)
Associate Professor
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
DNP Track Coordinator
University of Kentucky College of Nursing
UK HealthCare
Lexington, Kentucky
Needs Statement
This set of training modules is intended for school personnel training (nurses and designated, non-licensed staff) who will provide diabetes-related care and medication administration to students with diabetes in a school setting. Speakers include diabetes educators, nurses, and care providers with expertise in the field of pediatric diabetes from UKHC Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, Wendy Novak Diabetes Institute (Louisville), and Cincinnati Children's Diabetes Center.Module 7 is a comprehensive application of knowledge through case studies. Participants will apply knowledge related to carbohydrate counting, identification of hyper- and hypoglycemia as well as management, and sick day management.
Target Audience
Nurses and other designated non-licensed school personnelObjectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:- Identify carbohydrate content in food items and calculate routine meal-time insulin dosage using the prescribed insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio (l:C)
- Review rounding dosages for insulin pumps, pens, and syringes
- Demonstrate ability to calculate correction dosage of insulin
- Discuss how to manage various situations that may occur during school hours or school-related activities (ie. Miscalculated dose, ketones, severe hypoglycemia)
- Describe the signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
- Demonstrate correct treatment of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia events
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral 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.
OtherUK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour of participation.
Faculty Disclosure
All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have a relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include a discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.
Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation