Intensive Diabetes Management, 7th Ed.

Level 2 & 3 CPE 

Suggested Performance Indicators: 1.1.4, 1.2.1, 2.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.2.7, 6.1.2, 6.1.8, 6.2.3, 6.3.8, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.5, 8.3.1, 8.3.5, 8.3.7, 10.2.9

CPE Type: 740 Online/Web-based 

Upon successful completion, the users will be able to:

1. Discuss three benefits of intensive diabetes management not achieved through less intensive insulin regulation and diabetes care.

2. Define and explain significance of each to diabetes: glutamine, ketoneogenesis, glucagon, and insulin.

3. Explain what a defective catecholamine response means to a person with diabetes.

4. Describe the patient’s responsibility in the multidiscipline team approach to diabetes care.

5. Describe carbohydrate counting and how insulin is altered to account for carbohydrate calories, added exercise, or illness.

6. List two ways diabetes professionals can address a patient’s burnout and fear of hypoglycemia.

7. Describe three situations where family therapy is recommended.

8. Identify the recommended premeal blood glucose levels in the following:  adult male, pregnant female, and an adolescent.

9. Compare the actions of the following insulin types: regular, glarine, detemir, and NPH.

10. Explain three reasons why the abdomen is a preferred insulin injection site.

11. Describe the most flexible insulin regime for meal size and timing.

12. Discuss how the insulin pump maintains more normal blood sugar levels and give two precautions on its use.

13. Identify the average basal insulin pump rate for patients with T1D.

14. Identify how much carbohydrate one unit of insulin normally covers.

15. Discuss two reasons why A1C is significant for people with diabetes.

16. Describe two possible benefits an overweight or obese person with diabetes might receive from losing weight.