• COURSE OVERVIEW

    This nursing continuing professional development e-course provides an evidence-based overview of diabetes care in the elderly patient including physiologic signs of aging and how diabetes affects medications, lifestyle, and the success of treatment.

  • CONTACT HOURS: 1.25

    Nurse Builders is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurse Builders is a CA CE Provider #15118. Nurse Builders is a CE Provider # 50-9679 for: AR, DC, FL, GA, KY, ND, NM, SC, WV.

  • INSTRUCTOR

    Dr. Melissa Cole is both a clinician and an educator with over 37 years as a registered nurse and an adult geriatric nurse practitioner for over 9 years. Throughout her career, she has worked in labor and delivery, high-risk obstetrics, pediatrics, emergency room, surgery, telemetry, diabetes management, public health, hospice and home health care. Her current passion and expertise are in caring for the elderly and disabled populations in both inpatient and outpatient settings, specifically those suffering from health inequities and social determinants of health.

Course curriculum

    1. E-Course Learning Outcome, Completion Criteria, Expiration Date, Disclosures, and Accreditation

    2. Speaker Bio

    3. Diabetes in the Geriatric Patient

    1. Course Completion Evaluation and Certificate

About this course

  • $12.50
  • 4 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content