Effective dates for CE credits: 3/10/2023 - 3/10/2025

Description

Gestational Diabetes Online Course is a self-paced, four-module course that focuses on the diagnosis and disease state, nutrition and physical activity, monitoring and medications, and also management throughout pregnancy and beyond. The course provides diabetes care and education specialists with up-to-date general guidelines for diagnosing and treating gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Use of the course material should be relative to each diabetes care and education specialist's licensure, registration, and scope of practice.

Learning Outcome

Diabetes care and education specialists will have an increased understanding of the guidelines for diagnosing and treating gestational diabetes to improve the quality of care for the pregnant patient.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe the definition, diagnosis, and pathophysiology of GDM.
• Describe the role of nutrition and nutrition recommendations for GDM.
• Discuss the benefits, risks, and recommendations of physical activity in managing GDM.
• Describe recommendations for monitoring during pregnancy with GDM, including self-monitoring blood glucose, ketone testing, A1C testing, continuous glucose monitoring, and additional maternal and fetal monitoring.
• List recommendations for the use of medication to treat hyperglycemia in GDM.
• Discuss the role of healthy coping, risk reduction and problem solving in GDM.
• Describe the timing of delivery of a baby in women with GDM.
• Describe the physiological and emotional advantages for breastfeeding over formula feeding for women with GDM.
• Discuss the risk for subsequent GDM, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes in women with a history of GDM.

Modules

• Diagnosis and Disease State
• The Role of Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Monitoring and Medications
• Management Throughout the Pregnancy and Beyond

Features

• Audio-visual presentation
• Breaks for check-your-knowledge questions
• Case studies
• Downloadable copies of slides
• Post-learning assessment

Activity Type

This self-paced online course is a knowledge-based learning activity.

Learning Format

Enduring Material

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for diabetes care and education specialists, including nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, physicians, PAs, social workers, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related conditions.

Course Completion

After you have completed the coursework, you will take the post-learning assessment. It has 20 multiple-choice questions. Your overall course completion will be based upon successfully passing the post-assessment with a score of 70% or better. You will get three (3) tries to pass the assessment.

After you successfully complete the post-learning assessment and evaluation, you will get access to a statement of credit, showing the CE credit you earned. Please print it for your records. (Note, you will be able to return to print it later, if needed.)

Faculty

Alefiya Faizullabhoy, MBA, MS, RD, CDCES, CDN, FAND
Manager, Nutrition and Dietetics
Department of Medicine, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
New Hyde Park, NY

Karen McAvoy, MSN, RN, CDCES
Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist
Yale New Haven Health System
New Haven, CT

Faculty Disclosures

In accordance with Joint Accreditation criteria and the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies for the past 24 months.

Joint Accreditation/ACCME also requires that ADCES mitigate any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. The disclosure information is intended to identify any ineligible relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during an activity, please report it on the evaluation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among educational activity planners and faculty are as follows:

Faculty
Karen McAvoy, MSN, RN, CDCES – No relevant financial relationships
Alefiya Faizullabhoy, MBA, MS, RD, CDCES, CDN, FAND – No relevant financial relationships

Planners
Jodi Lavin-Tompkins, MSN, RN, BC-ADM, CDCES – Stock: Gilead Sciences and Regeneron Pharma
Karen McAvoy, MSN, RN, CDCES – No relevant financial relationships
Alefiya Faizullabhoy, MBA, MS, RD, CDCES, CDN, FAND – No relevant financial relationships

Disclosure and Mitigation of Relevant Conflicts of Interest

All identified relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated.

The approval of this educational offering by the ADCES does not imply endorsement of specific therapies, treatments, or products discussed in the presentations.

Joint Providership

None

Financial Support

None

Accreditation Information

In support of improving patient care, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

	Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) The Universal Activity Number is JA4008258-0000-23-040-H01-P; JA4008258-0000-23-040-H01-T. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 4.0 contact hours. This statement contains information provided to NABP from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) via CPE Monitor®. ACPE policy states paper and/or electronic statements of credit may no longer be distributed directly to learners as proof of ACPE credit. The official record of credit may be located in the learner’s e-profile in CPE Monitor.
	American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 4.0 ANCC contact hours. This activity discusses 0.5 contact hours of pharmacotherapeutic content. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 4.0 contact hours.
	American Academy of PAs (AAPA) The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 4.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 3/10/25. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 4.0 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEU) for completion of this activity. Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1 CPEU. RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 4.0 continuing education credits.

Successful Completion

To receive a Statement of Credit you must participate in the full activity and complete an evaluation.

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists

To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

Board Certified Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM)

ADCES is the administering body for the Advanced Diabetes Management credentials. Continuing education programs offered by ADCES can be used toward fulfilling BC-ADM Certification and recertification requirements.

Other Health Professionals

It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for re-licensure or recertification for their discipline.

Pricing

Members: $159
Non-Members: $229

Volume discounts are available and will be automatically applied at check-out when the desired quantity is selected.
• For groups of 3-9, a 10% discount is available.
• For groups of 10-14, a 15% discount is available.
• For groups of 15+, a 20% discount is available.

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Access Period

You will have access to this learning activity for a period of six months after you enroll, or whenever the activity's CE credits expire (whichever comes first).

CE expiration date: 3/10/2025