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Diabetes Care Tasks at School: What Key Personnel Need to Know

Diabetes Care Tasks at School: What Key Personnel Need to Know. DIABETES BASICS. Overall Goal: Optimal Student Health and Learning. Hypoglycemia & Hyperglycemia. Monitoring Blood Glucose. Ketones. Health & Learning. Legal Rights. Glucagon Administration. Exercise. Insulin

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Diabetes Care Tasks at School: What Key Personnel Need to Know

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  1. Diabetes Care Tasks at School: What Key Personnel Need to Know DIABETESBASICS

  2. Overall Goal: Optimal Student Health and Learning Hypoglycemia & Hyperglycemia Monitoring Blood Glucose Ketones Health & Learning Legal Rights Glucagon Administration Exercise Insulin Regimen Nutrition

  3. Learning Objectives Participants will learn: • What is diabetes? • Why care at school is required • Basic components of diabetes care at school • Short and long term consequences of diabetes

  4. What is Diabetes? Body does not make or properly use insulin: • no insulin production • insufficient insulin production • resistance to insulin’s effects No insulin to move glucose from blood into cells: • high blood glucose means: • fuel loss. cells starve • short and long-term complications

  5. Type 1 Diabetes • auto immune disorder • insulin-producing cells destroyed • daily insulin replacement necessary • age of onset: usually childhood, young adulthood • most prevalent type of diabetes in children and adolescents

  6. SYMPTOMS: increased urination tiredness weight loss Type 1 Diabetes ONSET: relatively quick increased thirst hunger blurred vision uncertain, likely both genetic and environmental factors CAUSE:

  7. Type 2 Diabetes • Insulin resistance – first step • Age at onset: • Most common in adults • Increasingly common in children • overweight • inactivity

  8. Type 2 Diabetes some children show no symptoms at diagnosis in children variable timeframe ONSET: tired, thirsty, hunger, increased urination SYMPTOMS:

  9. Diabetes is Managed,But it Does Not Go Away. GOAL: To maintain target blood glucose

  10. Diabetes Management 24/7 Constant Juggling: Insulin/medication with: Exercise Food intake BG BG & BG

  11. Diabetes Management Proactive • keep juggling the balls Reactive • a response is indicated • corrective actions for highs or low • emergency intervention

  12. Assistance in Diabetes Management Routine Care: • Many students will be able to handle all or almost all routine diabetes care by themselves • Some students, because of age, developmental level, or inexperience, will need help from school staff. Urgent Care: • Any student with diabetes may need help with emergency medical care.

  13. Care in the Schools: School Nurses and Others Nurse most appropriate to: • Supervise diabetes care • Provide direct care (when available) However, a nurse is not always available. Non-medical school staff can be trained to assist students • For both routine and emergency care • Including insulin and glucagon injections

  14. Diabetes Medical Management Plan • A Diabetes Medical Management Plan (DMMP) should be implemented for every student with diabetes. • DMMP is • developed by the student’s personal health care team and family and signed by a member of student’s personal health care team • implemented collaboratively by the school diabetes team, including: • school nurse • the student • parents/guardians • other school personnel

  15. Elements of a DMMP • Date of diagnosis • Emergency contact information • Student’s ability to perform self-management tasks at school • List of diabetes equipment and supplies • Specific medical orders for blood glucose monitoring, insulin, glucagon, and other medications to be given at school • Meal and snack plan • Exercise requirements • Actions to be taken in response to hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia

  16. Quick Reference Plan • Development based on information from students DMMP • Summarizes how to recognize and treat hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia • Distribute to all personnel who have responsibility for students with diabetes

  17. How to Tell if You Have Pre-Diabetes or Diabetes • While diabetes and pre-diabetes occur in people of all ages and races, some groups have a higher risk for developing the disease than others.

  18. There are two different tests your doctor can use to determine whether you have diabetes:  • the fasting plasma glucose test (FPG) or • the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).  The blood glucose levels measured after these tests determine whether you have a normal metabolism, or whether you have pre-diabetes or diabetes.  If your blood glucose level is abnormal following the FPG, you have impaired fasting glucose (IFG); if your blood glucose level is abnormal following the OGTT, you have impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).

  19. How to Tell if You Have Pre-Diabetes or Diabetes FPG OGTT

  20. Where to Get More Information American Diabetes Association 1-800- DIABETES www.diabetes.org National Diabetes Education Program/NIH www.ndep.nih.gov

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