Seminar Detail
Gestational Diabetes: Diagnosis to Delivery
- Where:
- PRINCETON, NJ
- When:
- Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
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Course Description:
Diabetes is an epidemic. One in three children born in 2000 will have diabetes in their lifetime. Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a silent epidemic affecting almost 1 in 10 pregnant women. If you work in a perinatal setting, you need to know how to manage GDM. Join Darcy J. Hostetter-Lewis, an expert in the field of gestational diabetes, as she shares insights garnered from years of high risk obstetrical nursing. Topics covered include:
This program is designed to enrich your knowledge of GDM and provide you with tools to care for your patients with confidence. Evidence-based practice recommendations will be combined with real-world applications and case studies throughout this engaging and information-packed day. We can all be a part of successfully managing gestational diabetes. Darcy's story-telling approach to imparting information makes her passion for diabetes and pregnancy contagious. Come hear her and catch the enthusiasm!
Diabetes is an epidemic. One in three children born in 2000 will have diabetes in their lifetime. Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a silent epidemic affecting almost 1 in 10 pregnant women. If you work in a perinatal setting, you need to know how to manage GDM. Join Darcy J. Hostetter-Lewis, an expert in the field of gestational diabetes, as she shares insights garnered from years of high risk obstetrical nursing. Topics covered include:
- Self-Monitoring Guidelines
- Exercise and Nutrition
- The Latest in Medication Management
- Hyperglycemia and the 5 S's
- Hypoglycemia and the Rule of 15
- Glucose Control During Labor
- Postpartum Insulin Requirements
- Interconception and Preconception Care
This program is designed to enrich your knowledge of GDM and provide you with tools to care for your patients with confidence. Evidence-based practice recommendations will be combined with real-world applications and case studies throughout this engaging and information-packed day. We can all be a part of successfully managing gestational diabetes. Darcy's story-telling approach to imparting information makes her passion for diabetes and pregnancy contagious. Come hear her and catch the enthusiasm!
Please refer to the course brochure for continuing education information.
Learner Objectives:
- Summarize current GDM screening and diagnosis recommendations, noting the impact of the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome study (HAPO) on these recommendations.
- Integrate perinatal practice strategies to counsel patients regarding the long- and short-term risks of hyperglycemia to the mother, fetus, and offspring.
- Relate the use of the AADE 7 self-management skills when educating women with gestational diabetes.
- State blood glucose targets and self-monitoring frequencies.
- Describe the principles of a healthy eating plan.
- Discuss the relationship between staying active and maintaining blood glucose targets.
- Identify tools to assess coping with stress, readiness for change and level of motivation for women experiencing diabetes during pregnancy.
- Explain how to use insulin and oral agents safely and accurately to achieve normoglycemia during antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum.
DARCY J. HOSTETTER-LEWIS, MSN, RN, PHN, PNE, CLE
Darcy J. Hostetter-Lewis works as a labor and delivery nurse and teaches child birth education classes providing enhanced pregnancy services to women enrolled in the California Perinatal Services Program. Her areas of interest in perinatal health include breastfeeding education, diabetes in pregnancy and caring for women with perinatal substance abuse problems. She is currently a member of the local Sweet Success, California Diabetes in Pregnancy Program multidisciplinary team providing diabetes management and education for women diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy. Her work at a Family Health Center also includes providing breastfeeding education to women in her community through Feather River Hospital's Center for Breastfeeding Support.
Darcy holds a Master's Degree in Perinatal Education and her career caring for the perinatal community began in 1998 when she received her certification in lactation education, enabling her to volunteer as a lactation educator in a local hospital and provide new mothers with anticipatory guidance to increase the rate of breastfeeding in the community. Darcy has been a member of the faculty at California State University, Chico since 2006, where she has had the opportunity to educate students in fundamentals, medical/surgical nursing, obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Her background also includes case management of high risk pregnant and postpartum women, and she was actively involved in developing a home visit program for high risk mothers and their newly delivered babies in her community.
Disclosures:
Financial: Darcy Hostetter-Lewis is receiving a fee for speaking at this educational activity.
Nonfinancial: Darcy Hostetter-Lewis has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Darcy holds a Master's Degree in Perinatal Education and her career caring for the perinatal community began in 1998 when she received her certification in lactation education, enabling her to volunteer as a lactation educator in a local hospital and provide new mothers with anticipatory guidance to increase the rate of breastfeeding in the community. Darcy has been a member of the faculty at California State University, Chico since 2006, where she has had the opportunity to educate students in fundamentals, medical/surgical nursing, obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Her background also includes case management of high risk pregnant and postpartum women, and she was actively involved in developing a home visit program for high risk mothers and their newly delivered babies in her community.
Disclosures:
Financial: Darcy Hostetter-Lewis is receiving a fee for speaking at this educational activity.
Nonfinancial: Darcy Hostetter-Lewis has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI Rehab, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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