Dear Nurse,

We hope you have remained safe and well during these unprecedented times. We understand the COVID-19 pandemic has been a difficult time for people living with diabetes. Your patients may not have been able to keep up their regular pathology monitoring or visits to discuss their diabetes management with you. 

This World Diabetes Day we would like to take the opportunity to encourage people living with diabetes, to return to their diabetes healthcare team to help ensure their diabetes is being managed optimally.

Your role, as always, is particularly important, and now is the time to encourage your patients living with diabetes to make an appointment with you. To help you do this, please see attached a poster you or your reception team may like to use to help deliver this important message.

 

It is best practice to ensure people who are newly diagnosed with diabetes, those with complications and those with diabetes who are transitioning to more frequent blood glucose monitoring or new medications are referred by their GP through a Chronic Disease Management Plan to a Credentialled Diabetes Educator or Nurse Practitioner specialising in diabetes for specialist diabetes education, management and care.

If you are passionate about diabetes education, you may like to consider a career as a Credentialled Diabetes Educator. You can get in touch with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association to find out more. 

More about World Diabetes Day

The theme for World Diabetes Day 2020 (14th November) is The Nurse and Diabetes. The campaign aims to raise awareness around the role that nurses play in supporting people living with diabetes. You can read more about WDD at https://worlddiabetesday.org/

Kind regards,

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