TU01
Making Learning Active: Tools for the Educator

Barb Schreiner, RN, MN, CDE, BC-ADM
Sr. Clinical Education Specialist, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Susan LaRue, RD, CDE
Diabetes Education Specialist, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

How do you:
Prepare and involve the patient for learning?
Move from educator to facilitator?
Make learning memorable?

Tap into the creative energy of fellow participants and experienced facilitators as you develop interactive approaches to teaching, reviewing and energizing your patients. Participate in a curriculum makeover. Bring one or two sample lesson plans from your program and leave this session with dozens of ideas for making your curriculum more engaging.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Create a learning environment to honor diverse learning preferences.
2. Transform teaching strategies using brain-based learning theories.
3. Strategize how to implement interactive teaching approaches within their diabetes education program.

UPN: 069-000-08-148-L04-P

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TU02
The Coach Approach: Using Coaching Skills to Improve Relationships and Results

Marci Moore, BA, ACC
President & Chief Innergy Office, Innergized!

Pam Williams, BS, ACC
Vice-President & Chief Innergy Officer, Innergized!

It’s not just the leader who makes a team successful – every player’s actions and interactions make a difference in today’s increasingly interdependent environment. Learn specific coaching skills, hear coaching success stories, hone your coaching technique and get in touch with your inner coach by changing your focus. You’ll leave this interactive session with the courage and confidence to use a coach approach to build stronger relationships, communicate more effectively and create a collaborative environment of trust and accountability.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. State the critical importance of managing and coaching the “whole person.”
2. Describe the value of adopting a coach approach to management.
3. Apply essential coaching skills with traditional management skills.
4. Create an action and accountability plan to supercharge their employees.
5. Show more confidence in the ability to use coaching skills.

UPN: 069-000-08-150-L04-P

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TU03
Medications, Monitoring and Diabetes Management: Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Technology to Guide Therapy Changes

Jennifer M. Block RN, CDE
Research Nurse Stanford University Department of Pediatric Endocrinology

Margaret Powers, PhD, RD, CDE
Manager of Health Programs, International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet

Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) provides a more complete picture of glucose control than home blood glucose monitoring (HGM). CGM offers data on postprandial and overnight glycemia that is not usually obtained with HGM. The continuous data often highlights the successes and challenges in glycemic control. When used in combination with home blood glucose meter tests, CGM can help refine medication and lifestyle modifications to fine tune glucose control. We will discuss current and future research on CGM use and review case studies. We will address patient education, behavior modification and diabetes management therapy changes in patients using CGM.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Describe research on the use of CGM technology.
2. Identify blood glucose trends using CGM and how to adjust management therapy.
3. Describe how to educate patients with the information provided by CGM to promote positive behavior modification.

UPN: 069-000-08-154-L01-P

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TU06
Beyond Giving Advice: Lifestyle Counseling in Obesity and Diabetes Care

Joyce Green Pastors, RD, MS, CDE
Assistant Professor of Medical Education in Internal Medicine, Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education

Terry Saunders, PhD
Assistant Professor, Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education

This session will introduce a basic process for approaching lifestyle change in obese patients with diabetes. Through use of video segments, we will demonstrate how to conduct lifestyle counseling.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Provide an overview of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and the Look AHEAD trial.
2. Introduce lifestyle counseling process.
3. Describe the components of assessment and provide video clips of several patient encounters.
4. Define behavioral objectives and demonstrate how to individualize objectives.
5. Describe the different phases of follow-up.

UPN: 069-000-08-151-L01-P

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TU04
The Empowerment Approach to Diabetes Education

Robert Anderson, EdD
Professor, University of Michigan Medical School 


Patient empowerment provides a framework for the development and implementation of intervention, strategies enabling patients to make decisions about goals, therapeutic options and self-care behaviors, and to assume responsibility for daily diabetes care. Empowerment has been shown to be effective in helping patients better care for themselves. This session will provide practical skills for working more effectively with patients and offer the opportunity to learn and practice those skills in a supportive environment.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Contrast traditional and empowerment-based approaches to diabetes education.
2. Identify evidence supporting the need for effective empowerment-based approaches to diabetes education.
3. Identify barriers and challenges for using empowerment-based strategies in both individual and group diabetes education programs.
4. Identify strategies to overcome those challenges in their own practice settings.

UPN: 069-000-08-147-L01-P

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TU05
A Call to Action: The Diabetes Educator and Exercise Prescription

Matthew Corcoran, MD, CDE
Certified Diabetes Educator Assistant, Diabetes Training Camp

Michelle Adams, MS
Exercise Physiologist, Diabetes Training Camp


This session will feature both didactic lectures and hands-on training in an effort to empower the diabetes educator with both fundamental knowledge and practical pointers in assisting those with diabetes attain their exercise goals. The majority of the sessions will focus on type 2 diabetes, but will also highlight important caveats for counseling both activity and athletics in type 1 diabetes. After a brief review of the aspects of exercise physiology that are relevant to diabetes management during fitness, training and sports, the workshop will turn to the practical aspects of managing and monitoring the effects of medications and insulin utilized by the exercising person with diabetes. The session will also offer participants the ability to deepen their understanding of exercise prescription, and the speakers will focus on resistance training and its application to diabetes management. The workshop will allow for a hands-on practical application of the exercise prescription as it relates to resistance training. Finally, the speakers will offer some practical pointers on coaching those with diabetes through behavior change, highlighting the CDE’s important role in facilitating successful behavior change in those with diabetes.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the relationship between diabetes and exercise physiology.
2. Identify treatment of type 2 diabetes with medicine and exercise.
3. Discuss a treatment plan for diabetes, insulin, and exercise.
4. Define the fundamentals of an exercise prescription.

UPN: 069-000-08-149-L01-P

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TU07
Managing Conflict with Confidence: 7 Conflict Skills We Didn’t Learn on the Playground

Marci Moore, BA, ACC
President & Chief Innergy Office, Innergized!, Inc.

Pam Williams, BS, ACC
Vice-President & Chief Innergy Officer, Innergized!

Conflict happens! Your responses fire up or cool down the conflict. Chances are you’re still using some of the conflict coping skills you learned on the playground. Come learn and practice seven surprisingly simple skills that will transform your relationship with conflict. Following this session, you’ll be able to increase constructive conflict management responses, reduce or eliminate destructive responses, recognize hot buttons and understand how to stay cool and confident when the heat is on.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify constructive and destructive responses to conflict.
2. State their personal Conflict Dynamics Profile® results.
3. Express confidence in using constructive conflict management responses.
4. Apply improvements in their own conflict management behaviors.

UPN: 069-000-08-152-L04-P

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TU08
Demystifying Hyperglycemic Management Throughout Hospitalization
In-Patient Care – Along the Continuum: Case Studies for the Advanced Practice Diabetes Educator

Jane Seley, MPh, MSN, GNP, CDE
Diabetes Nurse Practitioner, Diabetes Team at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center

Shannon Bailey MS, RD/LD, CDE
Diabetes Specialist, Jane Phillips Medical Center

Carol Manchester, MSN, APRN, BC-ADM, CDE
Diabetic Clinical Nurse Specialist, UMMC – Fairview

David Baldwin, MD
Physician, Rush University Medical Center

This session is designed to assist advanced practice professionals and interdisciplinary team members in negotiating the medically complex, metabolically unstable hyperglycemic patient throughout hospitalization from admission to discharge. Didactic presentations and case studies will address issues related to physiologic alterations and system dysfunction such as cytokine storm, inflammatory process, infection/sepsis, corticosteroids, renal insufficiency and complex nutrition requirements (TPN, TF). Regardless of the setting, tertiary care or community hospital, this presentation will help you unravel the complicated treatment modalities required for successful clinical outcomes.

At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss the evidence supporting glycemic control in the medically complex, metabolically unstable patient with a glucose abnormality.
2. Discuss the strategies to achieve glycemic control in the medically complex, metabolically unstable patient with a glucose abnormality.
3. Clarify the issues of intensive glucose management in the hospitalized patient.
4. Describe the nutritional and pharmacologic management of the patient with complex nutritional requirements (TPN, tube feeding).
5. Describe the role and list several strategies of the diabetes educator in care delivery and coordination for the inpatient with hyperglycemia and/or diabetes.
6. Explain the coordination of care of the hospitalized patient from admission to discharge home and beyond of the patient with a glucose abnormality.

UPN: 069-000-08-153-L01-P

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