TRAINING OPTIONS
Complement Plus Programme for Healthcare Professionals
The programme consists of four modules each having a recorded lesson, eLearning and live mentoring session.
The recorded lessons can also be delivered live, dependent on your preference of delivery. The benefit of live delivery is the interactive rapport between trainers and delegates being able to ask questions as they go along, the recorded lesson can then be used as a revision and review tool. Individuals receive a login to an online learning portal where they can access all the resource video lessons, eLearnings and a timetable of the mentoring events which are spread out across a 22-week timeline.
Injectable Therapies Part 1 and Part 2
(2 x 2-hour virtual sessions plus a follow-up mentoring session)
Part 1:
Explore benefits and challenges of injectable therapy
What knowledge do we need to be able to educate our patients effectively?
Insulin - Who needs it and who would be better off without it? Can we combine it with a GLP-1RA?
GLP-1 RA - Who needs it and what benefits are there?
Starting - Which insulin or GLP-1 RA and how much?
Continuing - Titrating doses and changing regimes.
Part 2:
Supporting your patients on Injectable therapies:
Blood Glucose Monitoring
Injection technique
Injection site care
Hypoglycaemia
Sick day rules
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Case Studies
LIVE Virtual Mentoring (1 hour)
(NEW) Best Practice in Type 2 Diabetes Care
This 3-hour virtual session aims to provide an update and refresher for clinicians caring for people living with diabetes.
Linking cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic disease: Why it is vital to assess risk and consider currently appropriate lifestyle and treatment options.
Targets: how to individualise and set targets with our patients in order to minimise and reduce risks, including blood pressure, lipids and blood glucose.
Frailty: How does this effect our targets and treatments and how to confidently de-prescribe when necessary.
Current guidelines: What are the currently available, recommended and appropriate treatments for reducing risk and complications?
Confidently and safely initiating your chosen treatment option.
New medications update.
EDEN Essentials
This programme is suitable for all Social Prescribers, Link Workers, General Practice Support Workers, and anyone new to Diabetes.
Incorporating a digital lesson and online toolkit with a range of infographics and information to support people to offer both basic support and information relating to health promotion, physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and to signpost or appropriately refer on for further advice and expertise. The recorded lesson can also be delivered in addition, live, dependent on your preference of delivery. The benefit of live delivery is the interactive rapport between trainers and delegates being able to ask questions as they go along, the recorded lesson can then be used as a revision and review tool.
1. Recorded Lesson
What diabetes is and the different types of diabetes
Risk factors for T2D and prevention
The possible symptoms of diabetes
The possible consequences of diabetes
What can be done to help improve the management of people living with diabetes?
Healthy lifestyles and reducing risk for people living with diabetes
2. Toolkit – Infographics and a one-stop-shop links to useful information
Eden Essentials Plus
A new programme that aims to provide people working in many different health, social care and wellbeing roles, with essential knowledge to care for or support people living with diabetes. For healthcare assistants and healthcare professionals new to diabetes, annual reviews to understand diabetes related healthcare essentials and their role in a diabetes review. Access to the Eden Essentials Recorded Lesson is also available as part of the Eden Essentials Plus Programme.
Eden Essentials Plus consists of:
1. Eden Essentials pre-recorded video (as above)
2. Eden Essentials Plus (2-hour live virtual delivery)
To understand the 15 Healthcare Essentials
To appreciate the rationale behind the elements of the diabetes review
To understand your role within the review
To recognise the importance of the review for people living with diabetes
Eden Elect - A diabetes decision-making interactive resource
3. Toolkit – Infographics a one-stop shop links to useful information
Face-to-Face Training
Any of the above topics can be delivered face-to-face. We also have a variety of other topics that can be delivered in person or virtual including:
Oral Therapies
Three Treatment Targets
Footcare with competency sign-off
Chronic Kidney Disease
Cardio-Renal Metabolic Disease (CaReMe)
3 Steps to Glucose Sensing (three virtual sessions)
To compliment the Implementing Glucose Sensing Programme https://www.glucose-sensing.com and support healthcare professionals in response to the latest NICE guidelines (NG17 and NG28), recommending wider access on the NHS to CGM for people living with diabetes
Step 1 - De-mystifying Glucose Sensing in Primary Care
Step 2 - Getting started with Flash and CGM
Step 3 - Getting to grips with online glucose reports
SANOFI CARES
EDEN are delighted to have partnered with Sanofi to provide a virtual educational programme. Endorsed provider by skills for care, SANOFI CARES is a free online educational programme designed to educate and improve the knowledge and confidence of care home staff and community care teams to effectively manage people living with diabetes.
Who is this training programme for?
SANOFI CARES is intended for individuals who support people living with diabetes in either a care home or home care environment in the UK, such as care home staff and community care teams, including registered nurses and non-registered practitioners (HCAs) or Social Care workers.
What are the potential benefits?
Reduce the number of insulin errors in care homes.
Support the correct storage dosing and administration of insulin.
Reduce hospital admissions due to diabetes.
Reduce the number of GP and ambulance call-outs relating to diabetes.
Increase the number of staff within these areas with insulin delegation responsibilities.
Reduce the number of community nurse visitations to administer insulin.
What to expect from the training programme?
The training programme consists of three elements: a recorded session, three self-led online learning modules and mentoring support through a virtual discussion forum.