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Identify or create and disseminate educational methods, curricula, and
instruction for diabetes management and control.
Contact Workgroup Chair: education@virginiadiabetes.org
Goal 1. Increase access to high quality, evidence-based educational curricula and resources to those engaged in teaching persons with diabetes (health care providers, lay health workers, schools and businesses).
OBJECTIVES
1. By March 2008, appoint a Virginia Diabetes
Council Education Work Group to develop a
comprehensive statewide approach to diabetes
education and support groups for persons with
diabetes.
2. By March 2008, partner with the Department of Education to review and update the existing diabetes training manual for school personnel, promote the role of the school nurse in diabetes management, and support training programs for school staff.
3. By December 2009, conduct an initial and
thorough search to identify effective and replicable
curricula and programs for persons with diabetes
and post on the VDC website and other accessible places, revise annually (e.g. National
Diabetes Education Program).
4. By March 2010, identify successful employee diabetes management programs and disseminate to employers and insurance companies annually.
5. By September 2010, develop key messages for educating persons with diabetes about how to manage their disease to prevent complications. Distribute key messages via e-mail and other means to “health care agencies and organizations”. Post key messages on the VDC website. Evaluate and update annually.
6. By January 2012, define a standard for training and certifying diabetes professionals and lay health workers.
Goal 2. Promote professional educational opportunities for health care providers that focus on evidence-based practice, recommendations for treating children and adults with diabetes, and self-management of chronic disease.
OBJECTIVES
1. By March 2008, obtain at least one commitment/sponsorship from a partner organization to offer the “Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Beyond” conference in Virginia.
2. March 2008, investigate and increase use of teleconferencing and telemedicine technology for providing diabetes professional education, especially in rural and underserved areas of the state.
3. By June 2009, partner with other organizations with similar interests to initiate and promote a speakers’ bureau that offers training at local physician journal and study clubs and grand rounds. Evaluate and update speakers/topics biennially.
4. By September 2009, assure that a prediabetes and/or diabetes presentation is offered at each major professional conference in Virginia.
5. By December 2009, identify and promote the use of patient standards for treating type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes.
6. By December 2011, develop, pilot test and offer standardized educational programs for diabetes health care providers that are modeled after programs for other chronic diseases (e.g., Physician Asthma Community Education (PACE) & Nurse Asthma Community Education (NACE) programs for pediatric asthma) that can be offered in 2 evening sessions or online.
7. By September 2012, partner with pharmaceutical companies to develop an academic detailing program or “Lunch & Learn” sessions on the care of prediabetes and diabetes patients in pediatric and generalist physician practice sites throughout the state.
8. By March 2013, identify or develop, pilot test and offer an educational program to certify diabetes lay health workers, parish nurses and volunteers in health districts, churches, industry and services clubs that can be offered in evening sessions or online.
Goal 3. Promote self-awareness and personal action in self-management of diabetes.
OBJECTIVES
1. By March 2008, investigate and increase use of teleconferencing and telemedicine technology for providing diabetes patient education in identified areas of need.
2. By June 2008, develop a one-page standardized Diabetes Action Plan for emergency diabetes management, to be signed by physician, parent and responsible school nurse/personnel, that is consistent with National Diabetes Education Program’s Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed, to be filed for each student with diabetes in his/her school.
3. By June 2008, partner with Virginia Pharmacists and other partners to replicate communitywide pharmacy-based interventions focusing on prevention and education, such as the Ashville Project.
4. By June 2009, identify and disseminate National Diabetes Education Program materials to promote self-awareness, self-responsibility and personal action to manage diabetes (web-based, printable flyers, brochures). Evaluate biennially and update as needed.
5. By June 2009, increase access of culturally appropriate educational materials to groups across the state that has been identified as exhibiting health disparities by surveillance data.
6. By December 2010, plan, fund, and implement a 3-year social marketing campaign that encourages persons with diabetes to take one simple “doable” action to manage their diabetes (e.g., Know your ABCs (AIC, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol); Know Your BMI; Know Your GFR; Know What to Ask Your Doctor about Diabetes, Ask Your Doctor About Regular Foot and Eye Exams).
7. By June 2013, review and adapt existing social marketing campaigns. Pre-test, implement, and post-test to track results. Alternate originally created campaigns which also brand VDC, with adapted campaigns to broaden resources.
KEY PARTNERS
Area Agencies on Aging
American Association of Retired Persons
American Diabetes Association
Diabetes Education Programs
Health Insurers and Health Plans
James Madison University, Center for Health
Outreach
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Local Cable Stations
Medical Schools
Medical Society of Virginia
National Diabetes Education Program
National Kidney Foundation of the Virginias
Persons with Diabetes
Pharmaceutical Companies of the Virginias
Schools of Nursing
Schools of Public Health
Stanford University’s Chronic Disease Self-
Management Program
United Mine Workers
Virginia Association of School Nurses
Virginia Business Coalition on Health
Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education
Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of
Family Physicians
Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of
Pediatrics
Virginia Chapter of the American College of
Physicians
Virginia Chapters of the American Association of
Diabetes Educators
Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems
Speakers Bureau
Virginia Department of Health
Virginia Diabetes Council
Virginia Dietetic Association
Virginia Health Quality Center
Virginia Nurses Association
Virginia Pharmacist Association
Virginia Society of Opthalmology
Virginia Tech/Virginia Cooperative Extension
Program
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