Health professional resources

This guide provides information for health professionals about assisting people with diabetes to access professional psychological support.

This booklet aims to assist health professionals in providing best practice self-management advice and support for adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes when they experience an intercurrent illness.

An information booklet for health professionals about subsidised continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and flash glucose monitoring (Flash GM) devices through the NDSS.

This practical guide is designed to support health professionals to identify, address and communicate about emotional health problems during consultations with adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Master copies of the questionnaires referred to in the Diabetes and emotional health handbook are provided so that you can reproduce them for use in your routine clinical practice.

Quick reference cards for easy access. Each card provides a summary of an emotional health problem: how to recognise it and how to support the person experiencing it.

A practical toolkit for health professionals using the Australian diabetes-related foot disease guidelines.

People with diabetes and high blood pressure are at increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke. By lowering your blood pressure, you can significantly reduce your risk.

People with diabetes and high levels of bad cholesterol are at higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke. By lowering your bad cholesterol, you can significantly reduce your risk.

People with diabetes are at higher risk of developing serious foot problems. You can reduce this risk if you have regular foot checks with a health professional and take good care of your feet.

Health professionals are a vital source of support and knowledge for students living with type 1 diabetes, their parent/carers and the people that support them. Be part of the school diabetes team.

This handbook is for staff who support those living with diabetes in residential aged care facilities.

This resource extracts the fast facts sections at the start of each chapter of Diabetes management in aged care (DMAC) handbook.

About a third of people with diabetes go on to develop kidney problems. Blood and urine tests can show early signs of any damage and help you keep your kidneys healthy.

This guide provides information for health professionals about communicating with people who have an intellectual disability about their diabetes.

A range of information and educational resources to support health professionals to provide appropriate foot care for people with diabetes.

This guide is for healthcare professionals who provide diabetes management for inpatients in hospital.

SMIT

This information sheet provides guidance to nurses about the National Diabetes Nursing Education Framework, including implementation suggestions and assessment information.

This document aims to provide practice recommendations to diabetes educators and other health professionals to better support health literacy for people with diabetes, their families and carers.

What are Information Prescriptions? How do I use them to record test results and help people understand, engage with and improve their health targets.

This resource gives health professionals an overview of the Information Prescriptions and how to use them as a key to unlocking behaviour change.

This resource is for Diabetes Health Professionals who would like to know more about the use of Insulin Pump Therapy and Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the management of diabetes.

These guidelines provide detailed information regarding diabetes management in the aged care sector. Go to the ADMA website to download.

The framework aims to guide the development of a skilled nursing workforce that is capable of providing a high standard of diabetes care.

This information sheet is for nurses working with people who have diabetes. It explains the National Diabetes Nursing Education Framework and how it will help them.

This workbook supports the National Diabetes Nursing Education Framework. It is designed for those who are unable to access the online learning modules or prefer workbook-style learning.

The framework is a tool that promotes life-long learning and can support the nursing profession to advance in the field of diabetes care and education with a long-term goal of improved community health.

Information for health professionals about the National Gestational Diabetes Register.

This document aims to provide health practitioners with a set of principles and recommendations to optimise the self-management education, support and care provided to people with diabetes in their practice

The person-centred care toolkit aims to assist credentialled diabetes educators and other health professionals to understand the benefits of and to adopt person-centred care practices.

Practice nurses (enrolled and registered nurses) are authorised to complete and certify (sign) some NDSS forms.

This resource is useful tool for managers in aged care facilities to assess the quality of the management and care of residents diagnosed with diabetes in their facility.

Every aged care resident with type 1 diabetes should have a documented sick day management plan. This template can be adapted to need.

Every aged care resident with type 2 diabetes should have a documented sick day management plan. This template can be adapted to need.

A3-sized posters of relevant aged care setting diabetes-related topics.

A learning module for health professionals caring for adults with diabetes and an intellectual disability.