Intensive Diabetes Management, 7th Ed. (CHES)

CHES Competencies – 6 Hours for 15 Hour Course

CHES Competencies – 8 Hours for 26 Hour Course

1.1.2 Identify Priority Populations

1.2.4 Procure Secondary Data

1.3.2 Determine the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, skills and behaviors that impact the health and health literacy of the priority populations

1.3.3 Identify the social, cultural, economic, political and environmental factors that impact the health and/or learning process of the priority population. 

MCHES Competencies – 9 Hours for 15 Hour Course

MCHES Competencies – 18 Hours for 26 Hour Course

1.4.1 Compare findings to norms, existing data and other information

2.4.1 Develop an implementation plan inclusive of logic model, work plan, responsible parties, timeline, marketing, and communication

3.1.4 Establish Training Protocol

Upon successful completion, the users will be able to:

1. Discuss three benefits of intensive diabetes management not achieved through less intensive insulin regulation and diabetes care.

2. Define and explain significance of each to diabetes: glutamine, ketoneogenesis, glucagon, and insulin.

3. Explain what a defective catecholamine response means to a person with diabetes.

4. Describe the patient’s responsibility in the multidiscipline team approach to diabetes care.

5. Describe carbohydrate counting and how insulin is altered to account for carbohydrate calories, added exercise, or illness.

6. List two ways diabetes professionals can address a patient’s burnout and fear of hypoglycemia.

7. Describe three situations where family therapy is recommended.

8. Identify the recommended premeal blood glucose levels in the following:  adult male, pregnant female, and an adolescent.

9. Compare the actions of the following insulin types: regular, glarine, detemir, and NPH.

10. Explain three reasons why the abdomen is a preferred insulin injection site.

11. Describe the most flexible insulin regime for meal size and timing.

12. Discuss how the insulin pump maintains more normal blood sugar levels and give two precautions on its use.

13. Identify the average basal insulin pump rate for patients with T1D.

14. Identify how much carbohydrate one unit of insulin normally covers.

15. Discuss two reasons why A1C is significant for people with diabetes.

16. Describe two possible benefits an overweight or obese person with diabetes might receive from losing weight.