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Prepare to pass the CDCES Exam!

Welcome to the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) Review Resource Center, your online guide to preparing for the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) certification. Here you will find access to a variety of resources to help you as you prepare to take the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) Exam.

Course available in 3 formats:

Watch a Sample of the Course

Onsite Course Overview:

The CDCES review course provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of diabetes based on the CDCES exam content outline. Participants receive information that will not only promote certification exam success but will also enhance diabetes practice.

Course Objectives:

Review and discuss diabetes certification exam content based on the CDCES exam content outline.
Attain information to support and enhance practice as a Diabetes Care and Education Specialist.

Course Outline:

Session 1: Exam Overview and Test Taking
Session 2: Introduction and Professional Issues in Diabetes
Session 3: Pathophysiology of Diabetes
Session 4: Assessment and Interventions of Diabetes
Session 5: Special Populations
Session 6: Complications of Diabetes
Session 7: Coping, Problem Solving, Risk Reduction
Session 8: Teaching, Education and Theory

About the course instructors:

Dr. Melissa Cole, DNP, APRN, AGNP-C, NPD-BC, WCC

Dr. Melissa Cole is both a clinician and an educator. She has been a registered nurse for over 37 years and an adult geriatric nurse practitioner for over 8 years. Her current experiences include working as a nurse educator for a graduate nursing program and as a telehealth nurse practitioner. Throughout her nursing career, she has worked in labor and delivery, high‑risk obstetrics, pediatrics, emergency room, surgery, telemetry, diabetes management, public health, hospice, and home health care. Her current passion and expertise are in caring for the elderly and disabled populations in both inpatient and outpatient settings, speciﬁcally those suffering from health inequities and social determinants of health.

About Contact Hours:

Live hours: TBD

E-course hours: 14

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For Florida and California Nurses: Nurse Builders is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider #15118) and the Florida Board of Nursing (provider #50-9679).

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