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Refer to a CBDCE-Certified Individual
If you are a healthcare provider and you are caring for people at risk or living with diabetes who need care, education and support, consider referring them to a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist® (CDCES®) and/or health professional holding the Board Certified-Advanced Diabetes Management® (BC-ADM®) certification.
A CDCES® and/or BC-ADM® is a member of your healthcare team that helps support people living with diabetes in their journey and improves health outcomes.
What is a CDCES®?
Over 19,500 nurses, registered dietitian nutritionists, PAs, physicians, pharmacists, and other health professionals have earned the Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist® (CDCES®) credential. The credential demonstrates to colleagues and people with diabetes that they are highly skilled in diabetes care, management, and education. The CDCES credential is a standard of excellence in the diabetes community. CDCESs have completed and passed a rigorous exam to show they have specialized knowledge in diabetes care and management.
What is a BC-ADM® holder?
The professional holding the Board Certified-Advanced Diabetes Management® (BC-ADM®) certification skillfully manages complex patient needs and assists people at risk for and with diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions with therapeutic problem-solving. Within their discipline's scope of practice and licensure, health professionals who hold the BC-ADM certification may adjust (and in some cases, prescribe) medications, treat, and monitor acute and chronic complications and other comorbidities, counsel people living with diabetes on lifestyle modifications, address psychosocial issues, and participate in research and mentoring. Holding the BC-ADM credential does not confer a change in scope beyond current licensure or registration.
What can a CDCES do to support a healthcare provider?
- Partner with patients living with diabetes to better support and manage their diabetes
- Healthcare Providers have a heavy patient workload, and a CDCES can help by focusing on quality care
- CDCESs can help your time with patients be more efficient
- CDCESs can support your patients by helping to improve health outcomes
Supporting Diabetes Care and Management
The evidence is clear, DSMES improves A1C, reduces the onset/worsening of diabetes-related complications, enhances the quality of life, and provides healthy coping strategies.
Information on the 4 key times for DSMES (Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support)
Diabetes is a complex disease that impacts peoples’ lives in challenging ways. CDCESs and/or those holding BC-ADM certification are at the forefront of diabetes care and management. They can care and educate your patients living with diabetes on:
Problem Solving
Having a plan when an unusual situation arises is a must for people living with diabetes. Your patient will learn to develop problem-solving skills that will help them avoid a crisis.
Healthy Coping
Chronic illness is hard. Your patient will learn how to develop strategies for coping so they can work through psychological, physical and emotional issues as they learn to live with diabetes.
Being Active
They will learn about the benefits of staying active. Regular activity will help them lose weight, improve their blood pressure, lower their cholesterol and control their blood sugar.
Taking Medication
They will learn about the medications to treat diabetes that you’ve prescribed for their diabetes and related conditions, including how to use insulin.
Obtaining general diabetes information for people with diabetes can be helpful in the short term, however, diabetes care and education can lead to better-managed diabetes, decrease short and long-term complications, and produce better health outcomes. Locate a CDCES near you or refer your patients living with diabetes to see a CDCES or BC-ADM!
Referral
For more information on referring patients for diabetes education, visit the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES).