Blog
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blog posts
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9 Dec 2024
The journey of the diabetes forum 2024
The UK Professional Lead for Long Term Conditions, who has been supporting the Diabetes Forum chair and committee, discusses the progress of the forum throughout the year and what have been the key highlights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
