Diabetic Education

[Laceyrochelle26]

Hello everyone

I work in a very small rural hospital as the lone educator for the entire hospital. I've been here about 4 months... Our diabetic educator recently retired and they have decided to not hire a new diabetic educator. Instead I am to make a program to educate the staff and the nprovide resources so they can educate the patients.

I came from a large metro hospital and we had "packets"... if you had a diabetic patient you grabbed that patcket... it had education tools, your cheat sheets etc... if you had a spanish patient.. same thing. I was thinking of having some resources like that here for that portion.

My question is... I need to first assess the knoweledge and see what the staff know.. the previous educator said that she knows staff were not proactive and just called her to handle any diabetic related education instead of providing some themselves. Then I need to formulate some type of educational program and competency around it.

I am a "talk it out" kind of thinker and there is no one else in my role that I can throw ideas off of easily haha... any thoughts anyone?

[SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN]

I was a central component in the diabetes education program at my hospital. We used a lot of DOD resources, but they're good. I don't have a test or anything--we didn't assess our nurses for knowledge before we trained them. We just provided them with resources and assumed they could use the brush up. PM me if you're interested in which resources we use specifically.

[Laceyrochelle26]

Thanks for your response!! :-) I can't pm you becuase I don't have enough posts but I would love to know the materials/resources you used.

Thanks so much!