Helping Your Patients Manage Type 2 Diabetes
As a diabetes educator, you teach patients to set and achieve goals that help manage diabetes. As you encourage positive steps toward healthy behaviors, take advantage of the patient education materials in this section.
These resources are designed to help you explain to your patients the practical aspects of managing type 2 diabetes. Try printing the documents and letting your patients take notes as the two of you talk.
How to manage diabetes during complications or illness
To reinforce the information you provide about the dangers of diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state, try Managing Acute Complications. Patients can take this helpful series of questions and answers home to review with family members. Managing Diabetes During an Illness communicates to patients how critical it is to manage diabetes when they have other medical ailments and illnesses, such as flu or pneumonia.
