Type 2 diabetes continuing education. 7-contact-hour CEU course offering a comprehensive overview of DMT2, including diabetes prevention, causes, symptoms, risk factors, and treatment.

1) Describe the incidence, prevalence, costs, and groups at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
2) Review the underlying causes of diabetes.
3) Discuss prevention strategies for persons at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
4) Describe the assessment and screening criteria used to diagnose patients.
5) Review current goals of treatment for persons with type 2 diabetes.
6) Describe the components of a diabetes self-management education plan, including lifestyle interventions and nutrition management.
7) Review medications and metabolic surgery options.
8) Discuss the most common and serious complications associated with type 2 diabetes and their effective treatment interventions.

Nursing
Physical Therapy

Nursing:
Type 2 diabetes: causes, prevention strategies for patients at risk, assessment and screening criteria, treatment, complications, and long-term plan of care.
Occupational Therapy:
Type 2 diabetes: causes, prevention strategies for patients at risk, assessment and screening criteria, treatment, complications, and long-term plan of care.
Physical Therapy:
Type 2 diabetes: causes, prevention strategies for patients at risk, assessment and screening criteria, treatment, complications, and long-term plan of care.

Nursing:

Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.

Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization.

Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.

Course Availability: Expires December 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare. 


 

Physical Therapy:

Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is a Continuing Competency Approval Agency recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California.

Approval of physical therapy continuing education credit varies by state. Confirm approval with your state's licensing agency before you take the course for CE credit. See Physical Therapy CE Approval for more information.

Course Availability: Expires December 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.

Nursing:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.
Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization.

Occupational Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# . This independent distance learning activity is offered at 7.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Physical Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is a Continuing Competency Approval Agency recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California.
Approval of physical therapy continuing education credit varies by state. Confirm approval with your state's licensing agency before you take the course for CE credit. See Physical Therapy CE Approval for more information.

FLORIDA PT: This course is not approved for PTs/PTAs in Florida.

Clinical Application
Diabetes (Endocrinology)
Emergency Nursing
Home Health
Nutrition, Weight Control
Pharmacy
Clinical Application
Foundational Knowledge

Christina J. McDaniels, BSN, BA, RN, PCCN
Christina McDaniels has been a licensed RN since 2017. Prior to becoming a nurse, she worked for 10 years as an inpatient and outpatient pharmacy technician. She has bachelors degrees in both English and nursing as well as her Progressive Care Nursing Certification through the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Christina background also includes 4.5 years of staff bedside nursing experience as a direct observation unit, telemetry, and medical-surgical nurse. She has been working full time as a nurse writer since 2022.

Michael Jay Katz, MD, PhD
Michael Jay Katz earned his PhD and MD from Case Western Reserve University. He taught anatomy, physical diagnosis, and scientific writing in the medical school there for more than twenty-five years. He has written more than a dozen books and nearly 100 papers and essays. He has also served as an anatomy and physiology consultant for Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.

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