Diabetes Education to Improve Your Care: How to Support Clients with Type 2 Diabetes
This course covers the complexities of type 2 diabetes, offering important insights that every healthcare professional needs to serve this population effectively. By exploring the latest exercise, diet, and medication interventions, you’ll be educated and ready to recognize and address your clients’ unique needs. Grow your practice and become a trusted resource in diabetes care by mastering the competencies covered in this course.
What You’ll Gain from this CEC
A better understanding of type 2 diabetes, including:
- The pathophysiology of diabetes and how it is diagnosed
- Symptoms, causes, risk factors, and treatments
- Acute and chronic diabetes complications
- Recommended treatment goals for blood pressure, blood glucose, and lipids
- Prevalence of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes
- The effects of exercise comparison between diabetics and non-diabetics
- Exercise training effects and contraindications
- Recommended exercise programming and special considerations for diabetics
- Interventions including insulin, bariatric surgery, behavioral strategies, and medical nutrition therapy
- Recommended diets for diabetes prevention and management
About Your Instructor
B. Rhett Rigby, PhD, CSPS, NSCA-CPT
Dr. Rigby holds a PhD in kinesiology, exercise, nutrition, and health promotion, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He is a certified special population specialist (CSPS) and certified personal trainer.
At Texas Woman’s University, he is the associate director of undergraduate programs in the School of Health Promotion and Kinesiology and the co-director of the Institute for Women’s Health.
Dr. Rigby’s general research focus is the physiological and biomechanical effects of exercise for adults and children with neurological disease.
He has over 60 publications and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and more than 70 research-related presentations.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Define type 2 diabetes and understand the physiology that influences organ systems in the disease state
- Define the short-term (acute) and long-term (chronic) complications of type 2 diabetes
- Discuss the risk factors and incidence/prevalence of type 2 diabetes
- Understand lifestyle and medical interventions for the treatment of type 2 diabetes
- Describe the exercise plan and exercise-related considerations for those with type 2 diabetes
What Your Diabetes Course Includes
- 1 webinar video (1 hour in length)
- 2 research articles
- 1 open-note, 25-question quiz
- Earn 6.0 AFPA CECs
