Are YOU Interested in Becoming a Certified Diabetes Educator?
Basic requirements for the examination are as follows:
1. The first requirement is that you are in the proper discipline and are current, active, licensed or registered: RD, RN, MD, DO, PA, pharmacist, OR have a master's degree in social work or other health care field.
2. Next, you must meet the professional practice experience of a minimum of 2 years working in your discipline AND a minimum of 1000 hours with at least 40% of those hours in the past year working in diabetes self-management education (DSME).
3. Finally, after meeting the discipline requirement and before applying for the exam, you must have 15 hours of continuing education in the past 2 years in diabetes education.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
CDE Handbook: http://www.ncbde.org/assets/1/7/ExamHB2016_fillable.pdf
Mentorship: http://www.ncbde.org/certification_info/mentorship-program/
Continuing Education: http://diabetesed.net
Mentor Eligibility Criteria
The eligibility criteria for mentors are: (updated 4/2015)
- CDE®, in good standing, for 3 years
- Current practice as a Diabetes Educator, providing DSME services
- Other preceptor/mentoring experience
- Verify that DSME provided includes*:
- a process to coordinate educational activities
- the individual’s learning needs and goals
- a curriculum (appropriate diabetes content areas, learning objective, methods of instruction delivery and methods for learning evaluation)
- documentation of the educational activities
- communication to the individual’s primary care provider and/or the referring provider
- regular assessment of the needs of your community and changes made based upon those needs
- regular evaluation of the educational effectiveness and outcomes with results used to make changes in the educational activities
- Agree to complete and submit appropriate Mentor/Mentee monitoring documentation
*Additional information may be requested for any application and is required if the application is chosen for audit. Random audits will be conducted. In addition, applications can be audited for any reason. If an application is chosen for audit, the practice’s diabetes education curriculum and other documentation verifying components of DSME as identified above will be required.
Application:
http://www.ncbde.org/assets/1/7/MentorApplicationPacketFinalFillable1016015.pdf