Healthcare Professionals

We welcome healthcare professionals and others to check out what we think are the best available downloadable materials and links to information about the care of patients with diabetes.

In the healthcare professional section, you’ll find:

 

Contact us to let us know if you have something you’d like to share or if you’d like to suggest we add something that you think would be helpful.

 

Note: The American Diabetes Association’s screening tool, Diabetes PHD, is a tool that healthcare professionals may wish to assist their patients with because the health information requested requires knowledge of the individual’s blood pressure, blood glucose, HDL, LDL, and total cholesterol levels, as well as a detailed list of medications.

 

Adult Care & Guidelines

 

Chart Pages for Adult Diabetes Care

 

Pediatric Care & Guidelines

 

News Archives

 

Hot Links for Professionals

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Feel Better, Stay Healthier

Get tips to help your patients feel better and stay healthier with this good news handout for people with diabetes. Download, print, and distribute to your patients.

 

Download Patient Handouts

Click here to download patient handouts, or send your patients here for a great interactive tutorial about diabetes. Includes Spanish version.


Introduction to Diabetes

Introduce your patients to diabetes, the treatments, and complications that could result. Also see additional resources and statistics.

 

Patient Resources

Get your patients to click here for a variety of resources and other links, including some in Spanish, to learn more about diabetes prevention and control.

 

*Nebraska Diabetes Prevention & Control

Our own State of Nebraska Diabetes Prevention and Control program is just a click away. Help us reduce the burden of diabetes locally.

 

*Local Statistics

Click for the stats. . . get the facts. . .for the local diabetes picture.

 

Quality Improvement Report

Click here for a summary report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on Diabetes: Quality Improvement – for better care of the patient with diabetes.

 

*NDCC Guidelines

Learn more about the locally accepted Nebraska diabetes care consensus guidelines for adult and pediatric patients either at their website or ours. Also visit their website to order free brochures, recipe books, and informational material in Spanish and English for your patients or yourself.

 

Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator

An easy way for patients (or you) to calculate their body mass index (BMI), an important number to know in preventing diabetes and its complications. Includes recipes, activities, and other information for getting to a healthy weight.

 

Diabetes Life!

Encourage patients to watch dLife for their healthiest possible diabetes life! Download and print patient information and tools to help them manage their diabetes. Copy and distribute freely.

 

Diabetes Prevention & Control

Free info for diabetes prevention and control for your patients or for the public. Check out the award-winning PSAs (print versions and recorded versions available). They're just right for a 30-second patient education “sound bite” from you, their busy practitioner.

 

Fact or Fiction?

Find out what information WebMD has to offer you and your patients about diabetes. Your patients are reading it. Shouldn’t you know if it’s fact or fiction so you can help them do the same?

 

Various Resources

Includes several resources that health, education, and business professionals will find useful to post and distribute.

 

Food & Activity Trackers

Print and distribute Food and Activity Trackers for your patients to monitor themselves and the actions they are taking now to prevent type 2 diabetes.

 

Interactive Prevention Services Selector

Find recommendations according to age, gender, and pregnancy status by clicking the Interactive Preventive Services Selector on the left-hand column under “Resource Links” and following the download instructions provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

 

Hot Links for Advanced Consumers

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Prevention & Control for Children

Follow this link for help for diabetes prevention and control for children with diabetes.


Small Steps

Read “Why the foot is so important to those with diabetes.”

 

Eye Care

A link to help you understand and learn more about eye care as it relates to diabetes.

 

Type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile)

Check out what’s new for preventing and managing juvenile diabetes.

 

General Information

Get general diabetes prevention information including diabetes news, overviews, and current treatments.

 

Interactive Tutorial

A great interactive tutorial about diabetes. Includes a Spanish version as well.

 

Introduction to Diabetes

This will introduce you to diabetes, the treatments, and complications that could result. Also see additional resources and statistics.

 

Do You Qualify? Find Out Here

Click on this link to see if you may qualify for financial assistance for select diabetes care supplies.

 

NIHDPE

Your link to the National Institutes of Health Diabetes Prevention Education. Includes info for high-risk populations and materials in Spanish.

 

Good News!

Get tips to help you feel better and stay healthy. It’s good news for people with diabetes.

 

Prevention-Friendly Work Setting

Being healthy at work is good business. Click here for help on creating a prevention-friendly work setting and on actions you can take now to help prevent diabetes and its complications at work.

 

*Consensus Guidelines

Learn more about the Nebraska diabetes care consensus guidelines along with other helpful information.

 

Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI)

An easy way to calculate your body mass index (BMI), an important number to know in preventing diabetes and its complications. Includes recipes, activities, and other information for getting to a healthy weight.

 

Diabetes Life!

If you have diabetes, watch dLife for your healthiest possible diabetes life! Click here for tools to help manage diabetes. Copy and distribute freely.

 

Understanding Diabetes

This will help children, teens, and adults better understand diabetes and what can be done to prevent or control it.

 

WebMD

Find out what information WebMD has to offer you about diabetes.

 

Download Resources

Resources for those interested in learning more about preventing diabetes and its complications. Download, print, and copy to distribute to friends and coworkers so they can take action now to help prevent or delay diabetes.

 

What Is Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes?

http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/diabetes.htm

 

Don’t Miss the Show!

It may even be available in your own language! Click here for free written, audio, and multimedia videos diabetes prevention health info in different languages. Click on the word “Diabetes” near the top of the page, then double-click on the health information that you’d like to print, hear, or view. Tell a friend about the videos on how to take care of your diabetes. Doctors call it “controlling diabetes,” and it means how to be as healthy as possible, even if you have diabetes.