Daedong Hospital Designated as a Recognized Hospital for Diabetes Educator Training Experience

Daedong Hospital.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Daedong Hospital was recently designated as a diabetes educator training experience recognition hospital by the Korean Diabetes Association.

The Korean Diabetes Association operates a diabetes educator certification system and designates diabetes education experience recognition hospitals to enable standardized diabetes treatment and education according to standardized guidelines.

A diabetes education experience recognition hospital is selected by the Korean Diabetes Association Management Committee after reviewing medical institutions where a diabetes education team composed of workers from three or more fields conducts diabetes education regularly at least twice a month.

Doctors, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and others belonging to the diabetes education team must hold diabetes educator certificates.

At Daedong Hospital, Lee Kwang-jae, Head of Medical Planning, Jo Ara, Manager, diabetes education specialist nurses, and nutritionists have received diabetes educator certification.

In June, the hospital opened a diabetes education room next to the outpatient endocrinology department and has developed and provided various educational programs to improve the health and quality of life of diabetes patients.

In the diabetes education room, diabetes patients are educated to correctly understand diabetes, enabling efficient blood sugar monitoring, appropriate and safe medication intake and administration, effective self-management and complication prevention activities, and proper dietary control.

Lee Kwang-jae, Deputy Director of the Endocrine Center at Daedong Hospital, said, “We will strive to actively acquire the latest knowledge and provide highly efficient educational programs so that diabetes patients can successfully manage themselves.”

To use the diabetes education room at Daedong Hospital, patients must receive a prescription after an endocrinology outpatient visit, and by visiting the diabetes education room at the reserved time, they can receive customized individual education and counseling lasting about 1 to 1.5 hours.

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