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Diabetes Care Certificate Program

This course focuses on how to help patients better understand and manage a complex and chronic condition—diabetes. The pharmacist will become familiar with the disease characteristics of diabetes, methods of treatment ranging from diet to medication, and techniques for helping patients manage their disease.

Topics include: physiology and pathophysiology, clinical management, diet and nutrition, psychosocial assessment and management, contemporary issues in diabetes care, and how to bill for diabetes care services. Participants will learn how to develop a diabetes care center in their pharmacy, as well as marketing techniques in their community.

This program can be applied toward the attainment of the NIPCO Pharmacist Care Diplomate Credential. This program will provide participants with 16 to 20 ACPE CE contact hours (1.6 to 2.0 CEUs) of continuing pharmaceutical education, and is available in both live and home study formats.

This program can be purchased online at NCPA's bookstore.

Professional Competencies

Define and contrast type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Describe key educational issues associated with each therapeutic agent. List six important educational areas in teaching self glucose monitoring and demonstrate a glucose measurement method. List the identification, treatment and prevention of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Demonstrate how to document the essential components of a diabetes care plan and billing methods for pharmacist care of patients with diabetes. Demonstrate how to teach the proper technique for drawing and injecting insulin. Relate the state and federal regulations pertaining to community pharmacy-based whole blood technology testing and screening procedures, e.g., OSHA, CLIA. Discuss the nutritional recommendations of the American Diabetes Association. Explain the importance of patient education issues related to diabetes and exercise, illness and hypoglycemia. Discuss the emotional, social and financial barriers to adherence with diabetes.