DM and Visual Impairment Online Course!
Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A New View for Health Professionals
The Carroll Center for the Blind announces a third course in our series of on-line courses for patients, families and professionals. The Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) approves 30.50 contact hours for this self-study. With the support of Diabetes Educators Educating Massachusetts (DEEM), the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education, provides 23.5 contact hours of continuing education credit. Many other health professions accept the Carroll’s Center’s certificate for continuing education credit.
Thanks to private foundation funding, these courses are currently FREE!
The curriculum was developed by Margaret E. Cleary, RN, MS, CVRT®, who has over thirty years of experience as a rehabilitation nurse, diabetes educator and certified vision rehabilitation therapist at the Carroll Center. “I anticipate that at the conclusion of this course, health care participants will be far better able to aid patients who have diabetes and visual impairment in developing a therapeutic, healthful and productive lifestyle” Cleary said.
Brian Charlson, director of computer training at the Carroll Center, supervised the technical aspects of the project which features Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), a software platform that provides the sighted reader with complete and easily-accessed materials while allowing the visually impaired student easy access through his or her own adaptive technology.
For more information about these new online courses read the FAQ's or contact Brian Charlson at 617-969-6200 ext. 224.
You can register for our new Diabetes and Visual Impairment courses by following the appropriate link below:
• A New View for Patients and Families
• A New View for Vision Professionals
• A New View for Health Professionals