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This document provides an overview of diabetes care tasks that key school personnel need to know. It defines the two main types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, and explains their causes, symptoms, and management. The goals of diabetes management at school are optimal student health and learning. A Diabetes Medical Management Plan should be developed for each student with diabetes to outline their routine and emergency care needs, including blood glucose monitoring, medication administration, and how to respond to hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Non-medical school staff can be trained to assist students with both routine and emergency diabetes care tasks.

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STM Basics

This document provides an overview of diabetes care tasks that key school personnel need to know. It defines the two main types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, and explains their causes, symptoms, and management. The goals of diabetes management at school are optimal student health and learning. A Diabetes Medical Management Plan should be developed for each student with diabetes to outline their routine and emergency care needs, including blood glucose monitoring, medication administration, and how to respond to hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Non-medical school staff can be trained to assist students with both routine and emergency diabetes care tasks.

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Diabetes Care Tasks at School:

What Key Personnel


Need to Know
DIABETES BASICS
Overall Goal:
Optimal Student Health and Learning

Monitoring Hypoglycemia
&
Blood Hyperglycemia
Glucose Ketones

Glucagon Health Legal


Administration Rights
&
Learning
Insulin
Regimen Exercise
Nutrition

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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

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What is Diabetes?
Body does not make or properly use insulin:
no insulin production
insufficient insulin production
resistance to insulins effects

No insulin to move glucose from blood into cells:


high blood glucose means:
fuel loss. cells starve
short and long-term complications
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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

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Type 1 Diabetes

ONSET: relatively quick

increased urination increased thirst


SYMPTOMS: tiredness hunger
blurred vision
weight loss

CAUSE: uncertain, likely both genetic and


environmental factors

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Type 2 Diabetes
Insulin resistance first step
Age at onset:
Most common in adults
Increasingly common in children

overweight
inactivity

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Type 2 Diabetes

ONSET: in children
variable timeframe

SYMPTOMS: tired, thirsty, hunger,


increased urination

some children show no


symptoms at diagnosis

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Diabetes is Managed,
But it Does Not Go Away.

GOAL:
To maintain target
blood glucose

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

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Diabetes Management

Proactive keep juggling the balls

Reactive a response is indicated


corrective actions for
highs or low
emergency intervention

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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.

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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

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Diabetes Medical Management Plan

A Diabetes Medical Management Plan (DMMP) should be


implemented for every student with diabetes.
DMMP is
developed by the students personal health care team and family and
signed by a member of students personal health care team

implemented collaboratively by the school diabetes team, including:


school nurse
the student

parents/guardians

other school personnel

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Elements of a DMMP
Date of diagnosis
Emergency contact information
Students 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

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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

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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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