Module 3 - Medications and Emergencies

This set of training modules is intended for school personnel training (nurses and designated, non-licensed staff) who will provide diabetes-related care and medication administration to students with diabetes in a school setting. Speakers include diabetes educators, nurses, and care providers with expertise in the field of pediatric diabetes from UKHC Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, Wendy Novak Diabetes Institute (Louisville), and Cincinnati Children's Diabetes Center.

Module 3 addresses diabetes medications and overviews management of diabetes-related emergencies, including identification and management of hyper- and hypoglycemic events.

Target Audience

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Identify macronutrients and explain their roles in the body.
  • Apply basic meal planning principles and carbohydrate-counting methods.
  • Demonstrate how to interpret a food label to determine carbohydrate content.
  • Explain the importance of physical activity for students with diabetes.
  • Describe strategies to prepare for exercise and manage blood glucose changes during activity.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Participation
    UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.
Course opens: 
06/01/2026
Course expires: 
05/31/2029
Part of: 
2026-2027 Diabetes in KY Schools
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Leigh A. DeNotto, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Kirkhof College of Nursing
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, Michigan

 

 
Speaker(s)

Leigh Denotto, PhD, RN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Other
UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 0.75 hours of participation.

Faculty Disclosure
All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months.  An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have a relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include a discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation

Acknowledgement
In collaboration with UK College of Nursing Continuing Education Office.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 Participation
    UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.
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