Diabetes Boot Camp: How to Prepare Your Patients for a Successful Discharge 2/27/2026

February 27, 2026

Attendees will learn how to successfully prepare a patient for discharge. This includes what to teach, how to teach, and when to teach. The training includes blood glucose monitoring, carbohydrate counting, insulin administration, impact of exercise, and hyper and hypoglycemia.

Target Audience

Nurse

Learning Objectives

  1.  List the 3 main parts of preparing a patient with diabetes for discharge.
  2. Discuss 3 teaching tools available to educate patients with diabetes.
  3.  Identify the impact exercise/activity has on blood glucose.
  4.  Identify when blood glucoses should be tested, differentiate between hospital and home.
  5. Explain correct sequence of steps involved in optimal insulin administration.
  6. State how many times a patient new to insulin should self-administer a dose prior to discharge.
  7. Explain how to use the Teach-Back Method.
  8. Explain the difference between a carb choice and grams of carb when counting carbohydrates as a part of a meal plan. 
  9. Differentiate between symptoms of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
02/27/2026
Course expires: 
03/13/2026
Event starts: 
02/27/2026 - 7:30am EST
Event ends: 
02/27/2026 - 4:00pm EST
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UPMC: Presby
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Kellie Antinori-Lent

MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Affiliate of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 6.75 contact hours.

 

Available Credit

  • 6.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.00 Attendance
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