The Ultimate Diabetes Course – Stephen Rollnick and Tracey Long

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Whatever your specialty, you can expect to see more patients who:

• Have blood sugars above 200
• Are overweight or obese
• Have complications of diabetes
• Have heart disease
• Do not follow their diets
• Need to, but refuse to, start insulin
• Are not using an insulin pump

Learn evidence-based algorithms for managing diabetes to:

• Improve blood glucose control
• Implement oral medications and insulin
• Improve “compliance”
• Prevent complications

Your presenter, Tracey Long has over 28 years of nursing experience working in critical care & cardiology. She developed Spanish programs in health education and diabetes for local hospitals in Las Vegas and currently she is faculty of nursing at the College of Southern Nevada. Tracy earned her Bachelor’s in Nursing Science and Spanish from Brigham Young University, a Master’s Degree in Public Health Education at California College of Health Sciences and an MSN in Nursing Education at UNLV. Tracey is currently a PhD student in Nursing Education.

Tracy has served as a health welfare missionary in Colombia and works with International Service Learning taking nurses and students to Belize, Peru and other developing countries. Her research interests are Simulation, cultural competency training, measuring effectiveness in education, and diabetes. She served on the NCSBN National Nursing Simulation Study Team.

With a passion for active learning, and as an international speaker and award winning educator, Tracey helps students not just memorize, but truly learn the content material needed to successfully master skills and learning.

Learn everything you need to know about Diabetes in this robust course:

• Summarize an overview of Diabetes Mellitus and its impact both locally and nationally.
• Discuss the pathophysiology and diagnosis of: Type 1 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and glucose intolerance, Type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes.
• Assess obesity and sedentary lifestyle, and their impact on insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk.
• Discuss the ADA Clinical Guidelines for diabetes treatment and treatment goals.
• Compare the use of oral medications, injectables and insulin regimens in helping to meet treatment goals.
• Explain the AADE7™ “Behavior Goals” in education for self-management of diabetes.
• Determine ways to reduce risk through the recognition and prevention of acute and chronic