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9 blog posts
  • Marie Presgrave Marie Presgrave 1 Nov 2024

    Improving inpatient experiences of diabetes management

    This blog examines the issues faced by patients living with diabetes when coming into hospital. It offers some clarity around issues, and suggests how to improve the inpatient experience without compromising patients independence, in acute services.

  • Tamsin Fletcher-Salt Tamsin Fletcher-Salt 1 Oct 2024

    Diabetes and the digital dawn: A nurse's guide to new technology

    In this blog, Tamsin Fletcher-Salt, a diabetes and endocrine nurse team leader and Clinical Diabetes Nurse Specialist discusses technology and its impact on providing diabetes care in contemporary practice.  

  • Michelle Turner Michelle Turner 12 Sep 2024

    Discrimination and stigma within the diabetes community

    In this blog, Michelle talks about the impact of stigma and living with diabetes, and how nurses need to be aware of their role and how they can get involved.

  • Agnieszka Graja Agnieszka Graja 1 Aug 2024

    Unraveling Monogenic Diabetes

    As a genetic diabetes nurse (GDN), my journey with monogenic diabetes, Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY), had been both challenging and rewarding. Unlike type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes, MODY results from specific genetic mutations affecting insulin production.

  • Michelle Turner Michelle Turner 10 Jul 2024

    Congress and what it means for diabetes forum voting members

    This blog discusses Congress 2024 and looks at the feedback received from voting members, and what the future holds for the RCN Diabetes Forum.

  • Amanda Epps Amanda Epps 14 May 2024

    Diabetes in Sierra Leone

    This blog explains the complexities of managing diabetes in the developing country of Sierra Leone in Africa. I discuss the challenges associated with providing care such as poverty, lack of resources including insulin and other diabetes medications, malnutrition and infectious diseases.

  • Callum Metcalfe-O'Shea Callum Metcalfe-O'Shea 4 Mar 2024

    What is a Professional Lead and how are they supporting the Diabetes forum?

    This blog introduces the Professional Lead for long term conditions, Callum Metcalfe-O’Shea, and how he is working with the diabetes forum to support initiatives and improve RCN forum engagement.

  • Anonymous Anonymous 28 Feb 2024

    Gaslight

    This blog has been submitted by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, for reasons that will become clear as you read it. Bullying is a common phenomenon for nurses, with around a quarter of the nursing family experiencing bullying in the past year. This blog highlights my personal experience of “gaslighting” - a specific type of bullying, and how I am gradually recovering from this.

  • Sarah Orme Sarah Orme 7 Jul 2023

    CGM - whose job is it anyway?

    Appropriate use of continuous blood glucose monitoring can transform the lives of people with diabetes and is now recommended by NICE, but how do we address the knowledge gaps to increase access to technology outside of specialist practice?