HCP & ALMH to offer Diabetes Self-Management Education Program

[March 29, 2015]  LINCOLN - The ALMH Diabetes Self-Management Education Program is Nationally Accredited by the American Association of Diabetes Educators to provide core standard diabetes education and promote the 7 Self-Care Behaviors.

The Conversation Map Program is driven by conversation and built on the belief that people learn by being engaged - hearing, seeing, exploring, discussing and doing.

Understand how diabetes your affects you... and make educated choices about your health.

Learning choices:

Types of Diabetes
Coping with Diabetes
Diabetes Care Plan
Sick Day Care
Symptoms of Diabetes
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Meal Plan
Travel and Exercise
Diabetes Myths & Facts
Blood Glucose Monitoring
Medications and Insulin
Problem Solving

Individual appointments are available for those unable to attend group classes.

There are four, two hour classes in the group class program:

1. On the Road to Better Managing Your Diabetes covers many of the basic concepts one needs to know as it relates to managing diabetes.

2. Diabetes and Healthy Eating engages participants in a detailed discussion about the connection between food and diabetes and the importance of healthy eating to managing diabetes.

3. Monitoring Your Blood Glucose engages patients in a discussion about the importance of monitoring blood glucose, managing high and low blood glucose and how to use the results from monitoring to better manage diabetes.

4. Continuing Your Journey with Diabetes focuses on complex concepts related to diabetes, including the natural course of diabetes, the medicine options that exist, what insulin is and how it works, long-term complications associated with diabetes, and the key ABC's (A1C, blood pressure, cholesterol).

Required:

DSME Physician Order
DSME Registration Form
Needs Assessment Form
Verification of Session enrollment by instructor prior to Pre-Registration

Location:  Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, 200 Stahlhut Drive, Lincoln, II, 62656

Session 1: Afternoons from 2:00 to 4:10 p.m.

Class 1- Apr. 8,
Class 2- Apr. 22,
Class 3- May 6 and
Class 4- May 20 Wednesday

Session 2:  Wednesday Evenings from 6:00 to 8:10 pm

Class 1- Apr. 8,
Class 2- Apr. 22,
Class 3- May 6
Class 4- May 20

Visit www almh.org for class schedule, DSME Registrat ion Form and Needs Assessment Forms and answers to frequently asked questions.

Contact Jennifer DiPasquale, Registered/Licensed Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator and Program Facilitator for more information.
E-mail is preferred for correspondence at diabetes@al mh.org or call [phone]

[Angela Stoltzenburg, Healthy Communities Partnership]