CS-0020-07
CS-0020-07
Managing the Stress
of
Diabetes
Joe Solowiejczyk, RN MSW CDE
Manager, Diabetes Counseling & Training
LifeScan, Global Strategic Affairs

Speaker’s Notes:
(1)General introduction, novelty of approach-to help you help your patients better! Clearly present credentials that qualify you to do presentation.
(2)Smile, be warm & engaging; ask audience how many of them have encountered problems in getting patients to be adherent to medical regimens.
(3)Tell audience that they will learn some new ways of looking at & addressing an old problem; they can use the tools they’ll learn to day to be more clinically effective, reduce HCP burnout, etc.
(4)SUGGESTION: As part of your general introduction you might want to start by talking about the DCCT and results and how difficult it’s been for clinicians to translate lessons into practice-this presentation will help them do it.
(5)Transition to next slide by stating 3 take-home message points: 1. Expand definition of “patient” to include the whole family 2. In children, particularly teens, non-adherence & mismanagement should be treated as any other act of misbehavior & 3. In adults, it’s important to focus on general issues of trust, intimacy & sharing.