How a Diabetes Educator Can Help You

If you have diabetes, you know how challenging it can be to manage. You’re expected to eat a healthy and balanced diet, get plenty of physical activity, monitor your blood glucose (sugar) throughout the day, take your medications as prescribed, and do all of this to reduce your risk for complications. At times it might seem overwhelming, but you can thrive with diabetes, and a diabetes care and education specialist can help. 

What is a Diabetes Educator?

Words have power. As health care has evolved, the term diabetes educator has not grown with the specialty to reflect all that they do for people with diabetes, prediabetes, and cardiometabolic conditions. While individuals with diabetes manage their care, diabetes educators can empower them to manage their diabetes. They teach, coach, and guide individuals with diabetes so they understand their diabetes and how it affects their personal lives, and work with them to set (and meet) behavior change goals to improve their health.

HATT Diabetes Educator

Our Diabetes Educators are American Diabetes Association certified and are state-licensed healthcare providers.

Through HATT Diabetes Education Class, our diabetes educators will work with individuals with diabetes to develop a management plan that fits their lifestyle, beliefs, and culture. Our educators will help  understand how to use devices like meters, insulin pens, pumps, and continuous glucose monitoring devices; and use the information from these devices and your lifestyle to identify patterns and opportunities for improvement. Our educators will work together with the class participants to find solutions to address their most pressing challenges. 

HATT Diabetic Education Class can help people with all types of diabetes better manage their blood glucose, develop coping skills to address the daily challenges of the disease, reduce the risks for complications, decrease costs by reducing or eliminating the need for medications and emergency room visits, and help find and access cost-savings programs.