Essay On Diabetes Educator

This professional role is an interest to me because I have lived with Type I Diabetes since the age of eleven. Being nineteen now, I have had a lot of experience with this disease. I would like to share my experience with those who are living with this disease and how I was able to manage living with it.
The qualifications of a Diabetes educator, includes a current Registered Nurse licensure, current Basic Life Support certification, experience in health care setting, and a certified Diabetes Educator. It also “involves a person with pre-diabetes or diabetes and/or the caregivers and the educator(s) and is defined as the ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for self-care” (NCBDE). Becoming a Diabetes
They must listen carefully to the complaints and complications the Diabetic patient is having and to help them overcome it, they must assist and work with the patients in monitoring blood glucose for the medication control and adjustment of insulin, provide recommendations to both the Diabetic patient and family members on how to control/ living with diabetes, the Diabetes nurse educator must develop a plan for their patients in order for their patients to stay healthy. For example, educate their patients how to properly manage their disease and the complications they can face if they don’t manage it properly, also educating them on checking their blood glucose daily, how to eat healthy, recommendations of types of physical activity, injecting insulin at times needed, and to educate them about an easier way to live with Diabetes.
The collaboration with other health care professionals support the “caring” role of the Diabetes nurse educator by discussing professional collaboration within faculty teaching, research roles, and service by sharing examples of their own collaborative experiences and some of the benefits and challenges of they had in each of these