EdHealth’s Diabetes 4 Disability (D4D) course has a flexible format. Modules and lessons are combined to create an individualised course covering the diabetes care and support required by the NDIS participant. The D4D course complies with NDIS Quality and Safety Commission requirements.
Knowledge and skills evaluation
To ensure quality outcomes from the D4D training, knowledge and skills are evaluated throughout the course. Each quiz has a pass mark of 80-100% and is completed at the end of each Module.
Diabetes skills taught in the D4D program are evaluated in an Online Skills Check (OSC) session with our Credentialled Diabetes Educators. Information about the specific needs of each NDIS client are discussed, supplementing the information provided in the online component of the course.
To learn a skill, practice equipment is required. EdHealth offers Practice Packs of equipment you can hire for participants to use during the online course and to have their skills evaluated in an OSC.
Support
IT support is provided to keep participants on track with their online learning.
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Course Content
Module 1: Diabetes Support
Length: 2-3 hours
This Module provides a foundation of understanding about diabetes care within the disability support environment.
Lesson 1: What is Diabetes
Lesson 2: Lifestyle management of diabetes
Lesson 3: Diabetes medication and hypoglycaemia
Lesson 4: Diabetes linked health issues
Lesson 5: Diabetes self/supported management strategies
Lesson 6: The diabetes health team and community care
At the end of each lesson and end of Module 1 participants do a:
Module 2: Glucose Monitoring
Length: 1-2.5 hours
Focused on glucose monitoring, participants learn how to accurately and safely Check, Think and Act on glucose levels for the improved diabetes health of their NDIS participant. Practice equipment is required during the Module to learn how to use the equipment.
Lesson 1: How to blood glucose monitor
Lesson 2: Role of support workers in glucose monitoring
At the end of Module 2 participants do a:
Optional extra:
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)
Length: 1 hour each
Continuous glucose monitoring is used by most people with type 1 diabetes (via NDSS) and some people with type 2 diabetes, as Assistive Technology (funded by NDIS). Training is required for support workers to insert sensors, use and maintain the device and understand the glucose number, arrow and patterns identifiable when the data is brought together into reports.
At the end of the CGM lesson participants do a:
Module 3: Diabetes injectables
Length: 1.5-2 hours.
The NDIA encourages the use of trained disability support workers when a NDIS participant needs support to prepare, administer or self-inject subcutaneous diabetes injectables, (insulin, Ozempic (semaglutide) and Trulicity (dulaglutide) or GlucaGen HypoKit). D4D training gives disability support organisations the confidence to embrace the enhanced scope of practice for their disability support workers. Modules cover the knowledge and skills required to build the capacity and confidence of support workers to enable them to safely give, or supervise, a sub-cutaneous insulin injection and manage all aspects of their diabetes injectable care.
Lesson 1: Why do people need insulin?
Lesson 2: How to give an insulin injection?
Lesson 3: Hypoglycaemia – Identification, treatment and prevention
At the end of Module 3 participants do a :
Optional extras:
Ozempic (semaglutide)
Length: 1 hour
Ozempic is a non-insulin injectable diabetes medication support workers either give to their client or support them to do this themselves.
At the end of Module participants do a:
Trulicity (dulaglutide)
Length: 1 hour
Trulicity is a non-insulin injectable diabetes medication support workers either give to their client or support them to do this themselves.
At the end of Module participants do a:
Module 4: GlucaGen HypoKit
Length: 45 minutes
The GlucaGen HypoKit is an emergency injectable medication support workers can learn to administer sub-cutaneously to treat severe hypoglycaemia in people on insulin or with metabolic conditions. Ambulance callout times have increased, creating a greater need for support workers to be trained to give this medication in the event of a severe hypoglycaemia event.
At the end of Module 4 participants do a:
Contact Us
Contact EdHealth about your organisation’s diabetes training needs. We provide quotes based on the diabetes care needs of the NDIS participant by customising the Diabetes 4 Disability course as a training solution.
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Email: admin1@edhealth.com.au Phone: 0412 102 048