Diabetes Educator Course

What will I learn?

Improve your knowledge and skills with our Diabetes Educator Course (Namibia), made for healthcare professionals who want to be better at helping people manage diabetes. This detailed course teaches you how to talk to people well, create good learning materials, and teach people how to look after themselves. You'll learn all about Type 2 Diabetes, including what makes it more likely, how to find out if someone has it, and what happens in the body. You'll get good at checking blood sugar, helping people change their lifestyles, planning exercise, managing food, and helping people change their habits so they can take better care of themselves and get better results.

Develop skills

Enhance the growth of the practical skills listed below

Become skilled at talking to clients so you can teach them about diabetes in a way that works.

Create learning materials that really help people manage their own diabetes.

Understand what causes Type 2 diabetes and what problems it can lead to.

Use blood sugar monitoring and lifestyle changes to help people.

Make exercise and food plans that are just right for each person with diabetes.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can modify the chapters and the workload.

  • Select which chapter to commence with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can include

You’ll be able to generate additional chapters similar to the examples below

This is a free course focused on personal and professional growth. It does not equate to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate qualification, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.