Foreword

The goals of Working Together to Manage Diabetes: A Guide for Pharmacists, Podiatrists, Optometrists, and Dental Professionals is to reinforce consistent diabetes messages across the four disciplines, pharmacy, podiatry, optometry, and dentistry (PPOD), and to promote a team approach to comprehensive diabetes care that encourages collaboration among all care providers.

The following are the learning objectives for these materials:
After this activity, the participant will be able to…

• Identify the ABCs of diabetes and their role in preventing complications.

• Name key messages that PPOD providers should all convey to patients with diabetes.

• Describe the key concerns for drug management and foot, eye, and oral health care for people with diabetes.

• Identify the results of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP).

The target audiences that may best benefit from these materials include pharmacists, podiatrists, optometrists, dentists, dental hygienists, physicians, nurses, dietitians, and others who provide care to people with or at risk for diabetes.

Working Together to Manage Diabetes is a cross-training document. It is not a comprehensive guide to all diabetes concerns in any one of the PPOD disciplines, but is instead a “key issues” guide to messages that every health care professional can give to support comprehensive care.
 

May 2007

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)    http://ndep.nih.gov
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

A Joint Initiative of the National Institutes of Health and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention