Lifeskills™ Teaching Guides
Here is a dynamic new resource for Diabetes Patient Self-Management Training (DSMT). Print only those Lifeskills Teaching Guides you need to create an individual plan for each patient.
These 70 Lifeskills Teaching Guides cover the ten content areas of the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education required by the American Diabetes Association for Education Recognition.
Diabetes Disease Process and Treatment Options
“What is Diabetes”
“Type 1 Diabetes”
“Type 2 Diabetes”
“Team Diabetes”
“Know Your ABCs of Diabetes”
Nutritional Management
“New Diet Guidelines – What are they”
“Your Special Nutrition Needs for Diabetes”
“Using the Food Guide Pyramid for Meal Planning”
“Your Personal Meal Plan”
“How to Get a Handle on Portion Sizes”
“It All Adds Up”
“Sample Daily Meal Plan – 50% Carb, 30% Fat”
“Sample Meals with Substitutions”
“Low Carb Meal Planning”
“Low Carb Diets, What's the Scoop?”
“Carbohydrate Counting – Keeping it Consistent”
“Carbohydrate Counting and Insulin Adjustment”
“Insulin and Carbohydrate Problem Solving”
“Food & Blood Sugar Record”*, “Food & Blood Sugar Record for Insulin”
“Fiber & Diabetes”
“Snacks”
“Label Reading”
“Savvy Shopping Guide”
“Chinese or Italian – Fat or Fattier”
“Holidays and Special Occasions”
“Sweeteners: How Sweet Is It?”
“How to Buy a Pizza and Eat it Too!”
“Is It Safe To Take”
“Your Blood Pressure and Reducing the Risk of Hypertension”
“Just Tell Me What to Eat – Low Carb Menus”
Physical Activity
“Getting Fit: Start with Exercise”
“Exercise: Establishing a Walking Program”
“Exercise Activity Record”
“Exercise and Insulin Therapy”
“Sport Drinks”
“Exercise Take Heed”
“Moderate-Intense Activities”
“Shoes and Exercise”
“Pumping Weight: What Does it Take?”
Medications
“Types of Insulin”
“Insulin Record”
“Drawing Up One Kind of Insulin”
“Mixing Two Types of Insulin”
“Diabetes Pills: What’s Right for You?”
Monitoring and Use of Results
“Monitoring Contract”
“Blood Sugar Monitors-What are you testing?”
“Food & Blood Sugar Record”*, “Food & Blood Sugar Record for Insulin”* “Know Your ABCs of Diabetes”
Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Acute Complications
“How Low is Too Low” (15/5 Rule)
“Diabetes Out of Balance”
“Sick Day Foods” and “Sick Day Record”
“Diabetes, Surgery and Insulin”
“Diabetes, Surgery and Diabetes Pills”
“Surgery Discharge Instructions”
“Information for Professionals – Surgery and Diabetes”
Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Complications (Risk Reduction Behavior)
“Health Behavior Questionnaire”
“Diet Quiz 10th”
“Diabetes Complications – What to Know and Watch For”
“Diabetes Control & Complication Trial (DCCT)”
“Diabetes and Your Feet”
“Foot Check – Amputation Prevention”
“Risk Management and Footwear Categories for Patients without Ulceration”
“Medicare and Special Shoes”
“Low Vision Aids for Diabetes Self-Management Skills”
“Low Vision Teaching Techniques for Diabetes Self-Management Skills”
Goal Setting and Problem Solving for Daily Living
“Quality of Life Outcomes, Goals and Small Steps to Change”
“Food & Blood Sugar Record”*, “Food & Blood Sugar Record for Insulin”
“Bingo”
Psychosocial Adjustment and Daily Life
“Ups, Downs & All Arounds – Dealing with Emotions, Stress and Diabetes”
“Finds on the Internet”
“Summer Fun Time Is Here”
“Off to Places Far Away”
Preconception Care and Gestational Diabetes
“Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) – Caring for Myself & Baby”