Diabetes and Oral Health: A two way relationship
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Diabetes and Oral Health: A two way relationship
August 2, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 12:40 pm
Part of the new series on Diabetes and Oral Health:
Diabetes and Oral Health: A two way relationship
- To give health care professionals information, so that they understand the importance of providing people with diabetes education regarding their oral health
- To understand the potential bi-directional relationship between diabetes and poor oral health
- For health care professionals to undertake and oral assessment as part of the diabetes annual review
Delivered by Diabetes Specialist Nurse Judy Downey RGN BSc(Hons)
A 40-minute live webinar will be recorded and made available on demand.
Nurses and midwives are in a unique position to raise awareness about the importance of oral health and provide oral health education to individuals, families and communities. Implementing preventive measures early will alleviate individual pain, discomfort and disfigurement and reduce the economic burden of oral diseases on individuals and the health system.
A collaboration between C3 Collaborating for Health, the Commonwealth of Nurses and Midwifery Federation and Learn With Nurses.
Funded by Burdett Trust for Nursing.
Judy Downey
Diabetes Nurse Specialist
Judy is a Diabetes Specialist Nurse with over 20 years experience in all aspects of diabetes management, working across primary and secondary care.
She commenced her current role as an independent Diabetes Nurse Consultant in 2016, delivering educational services across North West London. An essential part of this service is follow up and mentorship in the clinical setting. Judy is an Associate Lecturer at Bucks New University, she also volunteers for Learn With Nurses to provide bitesize webinars on diabetes.
Judy has developed a passion for prevention and management of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle measures. She has developed and run low carbohydrate, healthy fat patient education groups – some of the participants have put their diabetes into remission, after attending the group.
Judy believes strongly that the updating and upskilling of nurses, HCA’s and other health care professionals is crucial to improve patient care and outcomes. To this end she has been commissioned by CCGs and by pharmaceutical companies to create and facilitate diabetes study sessions for health care professionals.
Utilising modern digital technology, she is able to present on any required topic in the field of diabetes and is currently presenting webinars for Learn With Nurses.
Judy has authored several publications in the last 2 years in the nursing press. Judy served on the committee of the Primary Care Diabetes Society for 4 years from 2007.
FREE
This webinar is part of the LWN series is funded by Burdett Trust for Nurses and provided FREE to increase accessibility to all
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