When it comes to compassion and kindness, clinical excellence and innovation, independence and motivation, Mary Yochim, R.N., certified health coach, comes to mind. Yochim has practiced as a ...

An endocrinologist has a fresh twist on gamification in health education: give nurses the chance to win time off by answering questions about in-patient diabetes care. Dr. Bradley Eilerman said that ...

Q: Why did you go into this career? A: I wanted to help people. When you help someone else, it makes them feel good and it makes you feel even better. I love being able to share what I know about ...

Objective: To compare usual care with nurse-directed care for patients with diabetes. Study Design: Randomized before-after trial. Methods: Diabetic patients were randomly selected for a diabetes ...

The ADA Education Recognition effort begun in the fall of 1986, and is based on the National Standards for Diabetes Education that were developed by the National Advisory Board and endorsed by the ...

For newly diagnosed diabetes patients, understanding their condition and managing it can be scary and overwhelming and that can be especially true of children. To ease a bit of the headache, many ...

In Alice Springs, where diabetes rates are among the highest in the world, education about the disease can be lifesaving. Diabetes educator Helen Lamech has for six years been helping Alice Springs ...

To describe the design and implementation of a nurse led diabetic retinopathy screening clinic. To present the results of a 3-month trial period assessing the concordance of retinopathy grading ...