Building Competency in Diabetes Education THE ESSENTIALS

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the process in self-management and the Diabetes Canada website further explores each of these steps with specific elements to work with. Figure 3. Self-management education five-step framework

Assess

Follow - up

Educate

Nutrition

Exercise

Monitor Manage Promote

Medication

Psychosocial

Set Goals

Collaborate

Adapted from Diabetes Canada (79)

The five elements of SME are: assess, educate, collaborate, set goals and follow-up. Note: that this is an ongoing process that requires a lifetime of interventions. These action points will be discussed at length throughout the education chapters in this manual.

Content of SME for diabetes Table 3 depicts the basic content that needs to be included in SME interventions. Each of these areas are discussed throughout this manual to provide the most current information that you can share with your patients and other HCPs. Please refer to the Appendix at the end of this chapter for more information.