Diabetes Awareness eLearning Course

Overview

More than 3.2 million people in the UK now have diabetes. This course will give people an awareness of diabetes, and is suitable for anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of what diabetes is, how it is managed, and what causes it.

Audience

This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of diabetes, including:

• Carers, parents and professional organisations
• Local authority staff and other local authority partner organisations
• Health staff 
• Education staff

About this course

The course is split into four modules:

•  An Introduction to Diabetes
•  Type 1 Diabetes
•  Type 2 Diabetes
•  Gestational Diabetes

Objectives

In this course you will:

 Know what diabetes is

 Why having high blood sugar levels is bad

 What Type 1 diabetes is

 The common symptoms and dangers of Type 1 diabetes

 What the main challenge for those with Type 1 diabetes is

 Learn about the diet for Type 1 diabetics

 How to treat a diabetic emergency

 The challenges for carers and the wider family

 What Type 2 diabetes is

 The differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes

 What causes Type 2 diabetes

 The symptoms of Type 2 diabetes

 What increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes

 The short and long term complications of Type 2 diabetes

 Helping someone with pre-diabetes

 Lifestyle interventions and the best way to lose weight

 The essential examinations and tests for a diabetic

 Diabetes and older people

 Diabetes and young people

 What gestational diabetes is

Content

Here are some of the topics covered in the modules:

Basic differences between two types of diabetes and causes; the dangers of diabetes; what diabetes is and how it affects the body; how to spot the onset of diabetes; how to respond to a diabetic emergency; what the special challenges are for carers; identify signs and symptoms of hypo and hyper glycaemia; prevention; what gestational diabetes is.