Diabetes: What FCNs Need to Know
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Date and Time: Thursday, June 12, 2025 from 9:15 am to 1:00 pm (Central Standard Time)
Location: Hybrid Format
In-Person Location – (More Information About Location)
MHealth/Fairview Community Wellness Hub at 45 West 10th Street, St. Paul, MN.
There is a parking ramp adjacent to the Wellness Hub and we will provide a voucher for free parking once you arrive at the symposium location. The symposium location is on the second floor of the building and we will have signs posted.)
Virtual Location – Zoom *
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4703446808?pwd=J2hbrgeGDagCQyEfX7XUkA2F9xSAxc.1
Meeting ID: 470 344 6808
Passcode: FCNNTC23
- * This has been updated from MS Teams, as we received approval from the venue to utilize Zoom.
Description: This session provides current information focused on nursing interventions to promote positive health behaviors to improve diabetes health outcomes. The discussion includes the spiritual aspects of living with diabetes.
FCN Scope and Standards of Care: The session addresses Standard:5B: Health Teaching and Health Promotion
Learning Outcomes: As a result of attending, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the components of diabetes management used for facilitating positive health behaviors to improve diabetes health outcomes. (taking medication, monitoring, eating, activity, coping and problem solving.)
2. Identify the most common current treatments and technologies used in diabetes care.
3. Discuss how faith community nurses can assess needs and help health care consumers improve their diabetes management.
4. Identify spiritual needs and spiritual care for health care consumers with diabetes and their loved ones.
Schedule: (Central Time)
8:45 Check in
9:15 Welcome and Prayer
9:19 Word from Program Sponsor
9:22 FCNN Updates
9:30 Faith Pollock, APRN, ACNS-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES
10:45 Break and visit vendor tables
11:05 Faith Pollock and time for Q&A
12:05 Break
12:15 Case Studies and Discussion including spiritual care.
12:55 Evaluation
1:00 Adjourn
This session is approved for three (3) Continuing Education Hours for RNs as required by the Minnesota Board of Nursing. Other health professionals are responsible for determining if this approval meets their licensure requirements.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Faith Pollock, APRN, ACNS-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES
Faith has been a certified diabetes educator since 1996; a board certified adult clinical nurse specialist (CNS) with a focus on advanced diabetes management since 2008 and an APRN provider with board certification in advanced diabetes management as part of the Abbott Northwestern Hospital Endocrinology Team in Minneapolis since 2015. In addition to being a provider, her role is to improve and provide safe glucose management of inpatients by collaborating with nurses and providers in medication management, diabetes treatments and complex care coordination for transition of care.
DOWNLOADABLE PROGRAM MATERIALS
In-person participants will receive many of these items, however, due to the length of the powerpoint presentations, we will not be provided a hardcopy. Attendees will be given note pages to take notes and all other hand outs listed below.
- Program Guide * Note that the virtual meeting information has not been updated. Virtual participants will be logging on via ZOOM. Please find meeting information above.
- Program Documentation (Print for Records)
- Case Studies (Have available during program)
- Powerpoint Presentation – Faith Pollock’s Presentation
- Four Slides from Faith Pollock’s Presentation that she recommends having with you, these have been printed for in-person attendees.
- PowerPoint Presentation – Main Slide Deck, w/o Keynote Speaker Slides
- PowerPoint Presentation – Welcome Slides
- Handout – Plan Your Plate
- Handout – Low-Blood Glucose, Hypoglycemia
- Handout – Health Coping
- Handout – Being Active Seasonally
- Handout – Taking Medication
- Handout – Monitoring
