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| | The Team Approach to Intensive Diabetes Management |
 | | Responsibilities of diabetes nurse clinicians include but need not be limited to providing diabetes education, assisting in the choice of insulin regimen, adjusting insulin dosages, teaching patients problem-solving skills, helping patients work through self-management problems, and developing educational and motivational strategies to promote patients independent self-management. |
 | | Similarly, in patients for whom chronic diabetes complications have become the focus of treatment (painful, peripheral neuropathy, for example) medical/pharmaceutical intervention may become the focus, and the principal provider may be the physician or pharmacist. |
 | | She was also referred to a tertiary care diabetes clinic, where she was introduced to a team consisting of a diabetologist, a registered nurse who was a certified diabetes educator, a registered dietitian, and a social worker. |
| journal.diabetes.org /diabetesspectrum/98v11n1/pg33.htm (3155 words) |
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