Event Date: April 23, 2014, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Please Note: All times are Eastern. Our 90-minute webinars
begin at 1:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Central / 11:00 am Mountain / 10:00 am
Pacific.
Program Overview
The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to provide diabetes education for people who have visual impairment and are otherwise capable of self-management to achieve equivalent outcomes as fully sighted people.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- State 2 definitions each of blindness and low vision, one in terms of visual fields & acuity and one in functional terms
- List at least 3 common courtesies to use when encountering a person who is blind.
- List 3 useful assessment questions for people with functional low vision to help plan services for people with visual impairment and describe what the answers mean for your educational plan.
- Describe tools or techniques for low vision or nonvisual diabetes self-management for at least 4 of the AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors
- Develop a plan to produce one diabetes education handout in accessible format
Intended Audience
The
AADE Webinars are knowledge-based
activities designed for individual or groups of diabetes educators, including
RNs, RDs, Pharmacists, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists,
Physician Assistants, MDs, and other health care providers interested in staying
up to date on current practices of care for their patients with diabetes and
other related conditions.
Faculty
Ann S. Williams, PhD, RN, CDE
Research Associate Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Williams is a research associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, with a program of research focused on self-management for persons with diabetes and disabilities. For almost 30 years she has specialized in the self-management needs of people who have both diabetes and visual impairment. Previous to her research focus, she worked as a clinical nurse specialist in a variety of clinical settings, including blindness rehabilitation settings, private diabetes education practice, and a group medical practice.
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Registered Nurses
The American
Association of Diabetes Educators is accredited as a provider of continuing
nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on
Accreditation.
This educational program will provide 1.5 contact hours
of continuing education credit.
AADE is accredited as a provider of
continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP
# 10977).
AADE is an Iowa Board of Nursing approved provider #366. This
program provides 0.18 CEUs (1 contact hour = 50 minutes, or 0.1 CEUs).
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Registered Dietitians
The American
Association of Diabetes Educators, (AM001) is a Continuing Professional
Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
(CDR). Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs)
will receive 1.5 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion
of this program. Continuing Professional Education Provider Accreditation does
not constitute endorsement by CDR of a provider, program, or
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Registered Pharmacists
The American Association of Diabetes
Educators is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a
provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program provides 1.50 contact
hours (0.150 CEUs) of continuing education credit.
ACPE Universal Program
Number: 0069-0000-14-098-L01-P
Effective Dates: 04/23/2014 to
04/23/2016 |
Faculty Disclosures
It is the policy of the American Association of
Diabetes Educators to require that anyone who has an opportunity to affect
continuing education activities content (e.g. authors, presenters and program
planners) with products or services from a commercial interest with which s/he
has financial relationships, discloses those financial relationship/s with
commercial entities to participants.
Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in
any presentation, but is made to provide participants with information that
might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.
Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among educational activity planners
and faculty are as follows:
Faculty
- Ann Williams, PhD, RN, CDE, has no relevant financial disclosures to report.
Planners
- Nancy Stonis, AADE, Chicago, IL, has no relevant financial disclosures to report.
- Anne Willmore, AADE, Chicago, IL, has no relevant financial disclosures to report.
The approval of this educational offering by the AADE does not imply
endorsement of specific therapies, treatments, or products discussed in the
presentations.
Instructions
To receive a Statement of Credit you must attend the entire
session. Your Statement of Credit will be issued electronically immediately upon
submission of the evaluation form. Contact education@aadenet.org in the event
you choose not to complete the evaluation form.
Test Your Computer
To ensure that your participation is successful, please test your system as
soon as possible so if you do have technical challenges, you will have time to
get them sorted out. Click here to test your computer.
It is OK to fail Step 4; you do NOT need to download the "Adobe Connect
Add-in".
System Requirements
While you can participate with a 56K dialup internet
connection, it is recommended that you have a high-speed broadband (or better)
internet connection. Please be sure you close as many open programs on your
system as possible.
Click here for operating system
requirements.
Pricing
Member Price (Individual): $ 50.00
Nonmember Price (Individual): $ 65.00
Member Group Price (Site): $125.00
Non-Member Group Price (Site): $155.00
Note: Registration entitles you to one computer connection, one telephone
connection, and CE credit for all participants, regardless of the number of
individuals participating at your site.
Refunds will be honored minus a $25 processing fee if received in writing via
fax (312/424-2427) at least 48 hours prior to the program.