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Continuing Education Courses
The AANP CE Center offers a wide variety of continuing education (CE) activities for nurse practitioners (NPs). Members of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) get more, including access to many free activities and significantly discounted rates on others. The activities are updated frequently, and more than a dozen endocrinology-related options are currently available.
JAANP Resource Center
Find evidence-based articles, up-to-date guidelines and other resources about endocrinology, particularly diabetes, at this resource center, brought to you by the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP).
NP Tools and Resources
AANP-developed Resources to Support NPs in Treating Your Patients
- Practice Brief: Menopausal Symptoms: Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies.
- Practice Brief: Pharmacological Management of Obesity: Obesity Management Association (OMA) 2020 Obesity Algorithm.
Facilitating Discussions With Your Patients With Diabetes: Moving Forward
Managing patients with a complex disease like diabetes requires frequent changes in treatment to help meet their goals. Therapeutic inertia can get in the way of treatment intensification. AANP, along with the American Diabetes Association (ADA), has created a resource document for NPs who manage patients with diabetes that outlines crucial components of conversations to have about treatment intensification and provides resources to assist with breaking down the identified barriers.
Patient Education Tools and Resources
Preventing, Preparing for and Treating Hypoglycemia
This complimentary patient handout is designed to support NPs as they engage in discussions about hypoglycemia with their patients who are living with diabetes. The handout provides important information about hypoglycemia symptoms, strategies for prevention and treatment.
This resource is supported by an independent educational grant from Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
AANP Community
Engage, Learn, Network and Progress Practice in Endocrinology
The Endocrinology Specialty Practice Group (SPG) offers a unique opportunity to interactively collaborate with colleagues who share an interest or clinical expertise in endocrinology. As an SPG member, you’ll have access to a cutting-edge, online forum where you can engage in discussions, document sharing and knowledge exchange with fellow NPs. Come learn, share and help progress the development of theory and practice in endocrinology.
External Resources
There are many resources available for both patients and providers and we have listed some of them below for your convenience. The inclusion of these links does not imply AANP endorsement.
American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has partnered with AANP, along with other select associations, to produce a panel-style webinar about utilizing a team-based approach to overcome therapeutic inertia in the management of the person with Type 2 diabetes. The webinar was designed based on the results of the metanalysis found here. Overcoming Therapeutic Inertia, an initiative from the American Diabetes Association, is supported by strategic sponsors AstraZeneca and Sanofi US Services, Inc., and supporting sponsors Merck and Novo Nordisk, Inc.
American Association of Diabetes Educators
The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) website provides information and resources about diabetes education for clinicians and patients. Some helpful pages include:
General Information
Provider Resources
Patient Resources
- How a Diabetes Educator Can Help You.
- Find a Diabetes Educator.
- Learn About AADE's Seven Self-Care Behaviors: This page includes handouts for patients (in English and Spanish) for each of the AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors, the seven most important areas for patients to focus on in their diabetes management.
Know Diabetes by Heart™
Know Diabetes by Heart, a partnership between the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, offers a number of professional resources for health care providers, including mobile apps, journal articles, guidelines, a podcast series and more.
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) website offers a variety of diabetes education resources and tools designed for health care professionals and patients.
Additional Resources
- As health care professionals treat patients with or at risk for diabetes, the new Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes (video) will serve as a comprehensive resource in areas that include — but are not limited to — identification and management of the disease, self-management support for patients, physical activity and blood glucose control.
- Body Weight Planner.
- Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring Methods: Comparative Effectiveness.
- National Diabetes Education Program.
- Endocrine Society Androgen Replacement Guideline.
- (Archived) Infectious Diseases Society of America Practice Guidelines: Diabetic Foot Infections.