This large professional conference in the Orange County area will provide specialty care training to the local health care community. Professional education will enable health care professionals to learn about new advances in diabetes education, research, medications and care practices to reduce diabetes complications and enhance quality of life. Also included will be information for professionals to help them overcome the medical, social and educational challenges of diabetes.
Program Agenda:
Topics for 2013
TBD
Learning Objectives:
- Utilize various behavioral medicine and health education techniques in the treatment of diabetes to improve inpatient and outpatient care. Addressing: exercise, innovative care models, technology, research, and patient barriers to adherence.
- Discuss clinical implications of recent research in the areas of diabetes and care of adults and children, new insulins and medications.
- Access current clinical findings related to the treatment of acute and chronic complications of diabetes.
- Assess the social, medical and educational challenges of diabetes through the lifecycle and develop strategies for improving clinical outcomes.
- Design and implement individualized patient education forspecific targeted populations to improve outcomes of care.
Education Units/Contact Hours for the 2012 event.
| This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program, 2012-004 approved for 10.0 contact hours. |
The American Association of Diabetes Educators is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program provides 10.0 contact hours (10.0 CEU’s) of continuing education credit. ACPE Universal Program Number: 0069-9999-12-007-L01-P Effective Date: 1/20/2012 to 1/20/2015
Registered Dieticians: 10 CEU credits have been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
CHES: Sponsored by Orange County Health Care Agency, Health Promotion Division, Provider No. CA0085, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. Pending approval, this program will be designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 10 total Category I continuing education contact hours