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Digital Seminar

The Ultimate One-Day Diabetes Course


Speaker:
Tracey Long, PhD, APRN-BC, RN, MS, MSN, CDCES, CCRN, CNE
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
Apr 10, 2025
Product Code:
POS076325
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

As healthcare professionals, we encounter patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic syndrome daily—no matter our specialty. With diabetes management becoming increasingly complex, it’s crucial to stay ahead of the curve with access to the 2025 ADA guidelines, prescribing algorithms, innovations in technology, and best practice strategies to prevent complications.


If we are not on top of new diabetes evidence and practice-based protocols, the delivery of diabetes care can be suboptimal.  This could unknowingly increase the risk for acute and chronic complications such as cardiovascular disease, renal failure, and neuropathy.  As more and more people are diagnosed with pre-diabetes and diabetes, there has never been a more important time to optimally intervene.


Diabetes expert Tracey Long PhD, MS, MSN, APRN-BC, CDCES, CCRN, CNE, COI, will advance your diabetes insights and guide you toward enhanced clinical decision making for individualized diabetes care.  You’ll learn current evidence-based pharmacological (including 3.5 pharmacology CE hours) and non-pharmacological approaches to glucose control. Gain practical skills to assess and treat both diabetic and pre-diabetic patients. Expand proficiency in emerging diabetes technologies.  And strengthen patient education strategies to promote adherence and lifestyle modification.


Through case-based discussions and highly requested topics, develop the skills to personalize care and optimize patient outcomes. Leave with up-to-date techniques and new confidence in your ability to prevent and manage diabetes more effectively. Your expertise starts here!

 

Credit

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Tracey Long, PhD, APRN-BC, RN, MS, MSN, CDCES, CCRN, CNE

As a registered nurse for 36 years, Dr. Long has worked in critical care, emergency medicine, primary care, and endocrinology. She is a professor of nursing at Chamberlain University and family nurse practitioner. She has been a certified diabetes care and education specialist for 25 years and teaches a certified diabetes educator review course. She teaches medical Spanish and one of her favorite activities is taking nurses and allied healthcare professionals each summer to offer free medical clinics to underserved communities around the world with her non-profit organization www.bridgesforhealth.org.

As a published author, she has written a book on how to thrive with diabetes, not just survive, three children’s health books, three books on family history and many professional research articles. She married her college sweetheart, and they have their own "long legacy" of 6 children who teach her what’s really important in life.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tracey Long has employment relationships with Utah Body and Soul, College of Southern Nevada, Chamberlain College, Travelers Education Group, Nurse.Com, and Atrain. She receives compensation as a freelance writer and editor. Tracey Long receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Tracey Long is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the American Diabetes Association, the National Certified Diabetes Educator Association, and the American Nurses Association. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Education Development and is a contributing editor Yangtz Journal of Medicine.


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Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

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Outline

Diabetes Incidence, Risk Factors & Diagnostic Criteria
  • Incidence & prevalence: Current statistics
  • Risk factors and causes: Identifying modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors (age, ethnicity, family history, obesity, lifestyle)
  • Clinical manifestations: by body systems
  • Diagnostic criteria: ADA 2025 guidelines for diagnosing diabetes and pre-diabetes using A1c, fasting glucose, and OGTT
Pathophysiology of Diabetes
  • Type 1 diabetes: Autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells
  • Type 2 diabetes: Insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion
  • Pre-diabetes & metabolic syndrome: Early pathophysiological changes
  • Gestational diabetes: Mechanisms and pregnancy-related risks
ADA Guidelines & Goals for Management
  • ADA Standards of Care 2025: Review of the most recent guidelines
  • Goals of care: Blood glucose, blood pressure, BMI, and lipid targets, smoking cessation
  • Individualized care plans: Tailored treatment goals based on patient comorbidities, age, and risk factors
Treatment Strategies 7 “MnMs”
  • Movement
  • Mass Reduction
  • Meal Planning
  • Monitoring
Monitoring with Technology
  • Traditional blood glucose methods: Fingerstick blood glucose and A1c
  • Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM): Devices, benefits, and interpreting data
  • New technologies: Advancements in non-invasive glucose monitoring
  • Monitoring: Labs, weight
Pharmacological Management of Diabetes
  • Oral medications: Metformin, SGLT-2 inhibitors, DPP-4 inhibitors, sulfonylureas, etc
  • Injectable therapies: Insulin, GLP-1 receptor agonists
  • Latest medications: Review of new drugs in the 2025 guidelines
  • Combination therapies: Strategies for optimizing glucose control
Acute & Chronic Complications
  • Acute complications: Hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state
  • Chronic complications: Neuropathy, retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, nephropathy, and diabetic foot ulcers
Considerations to Enhance Patient Outcomes
  • Addressing mental health concerns from diabetes diagnosis
  • Diabetes teaching tips for patients
  • Technological advances on the horizon
Take away resources

Objectives

  1. Apply the ADA 2025 diagnostic criteria for diabetes and pre-diabetes using appropriate lab values and tests.
  2. Explain the physiological changes in diabetes as they relate to clinical symptoms and disease progression.
  3. Develop individualized care plans based on patient characteristics, including specific blood glucose, blood pressure, and lipid targets.
  4. Design effective lifestyle intervention plans, including dietary changes, physical activity, and weight management.
  5. Plan for patient education tools that enhance adherence and empower self-management.
  6. Interpret continuous glucose monitoring data for patient care.
  7. Evaluate the benefits and limitations of emerging blood glucose monitoring technologies.
  8. Analyze ADA & AACE 2025 algorithms for oral and injectable medications.
  9. Implement combination therapy strategies that optimize glucose control in patients.
  10. Determine best practices to prevent and manage long-term diabetes complications.

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Dietitians
  • Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists

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