About Diabetes Education
This section defines diabetes education, helps people locate a diabetes educator in their area, offers resources to physicians, promotes a team approach to diabetes self-care and provides access to the scope and standards of the profession.
Find a Diabetes Educator
Diabetes educators can be found in many different healthcare settings – hospitals, physician offices, clinics, to name a few. Many are also in private practice. Make an appointment with one in your community today.
Physician Resources
Diabetes education leads to improved clinical outcomes. This link provides physicians with a referral form for diabetes education, as well as medical nutrition therapy.
The Care Team
Take advantage of the resources generated from a recent awareness campaign, Side-by-Side: A Partner Approach to Diabetes Self-Care. Download a useful patient guidebook, read the diabetes education blog and sign-up to receive our diabetes self-care tip of the week.
Definitions
Understand the elements of diabetes education, and learn more about the role of diabetes educators.
Scope and Standards
Read the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional Performance for Diabetes Educators, along with the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education.