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Unit of Study PBHL5001 - Managing Diabetes as a Chronic Condition (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces students to diabetes management strategies including: medication management (different technologies to monitor blood glucose levels; glucose-lowering medicines and injection techniques); nutrition and physical activity management; and approaches to psychosocial assessment. Comprehensive person-centred assessment and care planning methods are explored. The interdisciplinary nature of diabetes education and management is examined.    

Unit content

  • Introduction to managing diabetes as a chronic condition
  • Nutrition therapy
  • Physical activity and sedentary behaviour
  • Self-monitoring of blood glucose
  • Diabetes medications management
  • Psychosocial issues in diabetes

The unit learning outcomes address elements from Domain 1 (Clinical Practice), 3 (Research and Quality Improvement) and 5 (Leadership and Advocacy) of the National Competency Standards for Credentialled Diabetes Educators.

 

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Location Domestic International
Online
Term2
Term2

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

examine the process of self-monitoring of blood glucose and interpret results

compare and contrast glucose lowering medications used in diabetes management

apply nutrition therapy and physical activity guidelines to the management of pre-diabetes and diabetes

discuss the psychosocial issues associated with diabetes self-management and the role of the multidisciplinary healthcare team

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