Symposium for Advanced Diabetes Educators information

For more than 20 years, International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet has provided a series of highly-regarded symposiums for advanced diabetes educators. This year’s program, “It Takes a Team! Working Together to Improve Diabetes Care,” provides a great opportunity for you to gain up-to-the minute information from well-respected professionals in the field.

Diabetes educators understand the challenges of making lifestyle changes, daily monitoring and the effect of diabetes on the body. The field of diabetes is constantly changing as new therapies are discovered, technologies are developed and research uncovers new ways to manage the disease. This conference will focus on team-based, patient-centered, diabetes care and will emphasize how diabetes care integrates resources from many disciplines and fields. It will highlight the latest therapies, technologies and research that are impacting diabetes care and demonstrate how a team approach can help improve outcomes.

This symposium is designed to provide the advanced diabetes educator with new approaches to motivation, innovation and technology with an emphasis on team-based, patient-centered care.

At the end of the program the learner will:

• describe diabetes care that integrates resources from many disciplines and fields
• discuss how the latest therapies, technologies and research are impacting diabetes care
• restate the importance of patient-centered diabetes care

Contact hours have been applied for through the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee. Wisconsin Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC-COA).

Continuing professional education has been applied for through the Commission on Dietetic Registration.

To receive a statement of credit, sign the attendance roster at the beginning of the program and return your completed evaluation.

Substitutions are accepted at any time. A $50 administrative fee is applied to all cancellations made before the start of the program. Refunds are not given after the program has started. In the unlikely event the program is cancelled, International Diabetes Center is not responsible for airfare, hotel or other costs incurred by participants.

This conference will be held in the Naegele Auditorium on the seventh floor of Park Nicollet Clinic at 3800 Park Nicollet Boulevard, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, conveniently located at the northeast intersection of Highway 100 and Excelsior Boulevard. Follow the signs off Excelsior Boulevard to park in the free parking ramp. If you need more detailed directions, call 952-993-3531. A map will be sent with your confirmation letter.

Contact any of these conveniently located hotels:

• Marriott Residence Inn
  3400 Edinborough Way
  Edina, MN 55435
  952-893-9300
  (Special IDC rate; shuttle included)
   
• Sheraton Bloomington
  7800 Normandale Blvd.
  Bloomington, MN 55439
  952-835-7800
   
• DoubleTree Park Place Hotel
  1500 Park Place Blvd.
  St. Louis Park, MN 55416
  1-800-222-8733
  (Park Nicollet discount 10%)

Note: Attendees are responsible for all travel and hotel arrangements and expenses.