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National Diabetes Education Program
Continuing Education
The Road to Health Toolkit
 Goal
The Road to Health Toolkit provides community health workers/promotores
de salud, nurses, health educators and dietitians with interactive tools
that can be used to counsel and motivate those at high risk for type 2
diabetes. These tools will help reduce their risk for type 2 diabetes by
encouraging healthy eating, increased physical activity, and moderate
weight loss for those who are overweight.
Objectives
After
this activity, the participant will be able to
- Identify the findings of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
study.
- Discuss how to read nutrition labels to identify healthier food
choices.
- Identify tools that can be used to teach the concepts of portion size
versus serving size and techniques to control portion size.
- Explain the importance of physical activity and techniques for its
promotion.
Target Audiences
The target audiences that may most benefit from these materials include
community health workers/promotores de salud, nurses, health educators, dietitians,
and others working with populations at high risk for type 2 diabetes.
Authors
The Road to Health Toolkit was
written by
Betsy Rodríguez, MSN, CDE, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Jane Kelly, MD, CDC
Michelle Owens, PhD, CDC
Credits Available
This activity for 2.5 contact hours is provided by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is accredited as a provider of
continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center's Commission on Accreditations.
The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International
Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro
Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer
.2 CEU's for this program.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a designated provider
of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is
a designated event for the CHES to receive 2.5 Category I contact hours in
health education, CDC provider number GA0082.
Note to Nurses: CDC is accredited as a provider of continuing
education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC)
Commission on Accreditation. ANCC credit is accepted by most State
Boards of Nursing.
California: The California Board of Nursing will accept CDC’s ANCC
credit for self-study courses. However, they will not accept ANCC
credit for courses offered within the state of California. When applying for
re-licensure using ANCC credit, write-in “ANCC self-study.” A provider
number is not needed.
Iowa: Courses that are presented via "live" distance learning
technologies, such as teleconferences or satellite programs, must be covered
by an approved Iowa provider if they are attended at a site within Iowa.
There are no exceptions to this requirement.
However, courses taken as self-study over the Internet, are acceptable if
they are either covered by an approved Iowa provider, granted special
approval, are approved by the ANA (or ANCC), the NLN,
the NFLPN, NAPNES, or if they are approved by a board of nursing in
another mandatory continuing education state.
Reference: IAC 655, Chapter 5 - 5.2(2)f(i)”
Instructions
for Obtaining Continuing Education Credit
- Go to the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online at
http://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline.
If you have not registered as a participant, click on New Participant to
create a user ID and password; otherwise click on Participant Login and log
on.
- Once logged on to the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing
Education Online Web site, you will be on the Participant Services page.
Click on Search and Register. Enter the course number (SS1128) or a keyword
under Keyword Search. Click on View.
- Click on the course title: The Road to Health Toolkit. Select the type of CE credit you would like to
receive and then click Submit. Three demographic questions will come up.
Complete the questions and then Submit. A message will come up thanking you
for registering for the course. If you have already completed the course, you
may choose to go right to the evaluation and post-test. Complete the
evaluation and Submit. Complete the post-test and Submit. A record of your
course completion will be located in the Transcript and Certificate section.
- When asked for a verification code, please use CHW07.
- Continuing education credits for additional professions may be offered in
the future. Visit http://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline for updates.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact:
CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online
1-800-41TRAIN or 404-639-1292
E-mail at ce@cdc.gov
The materials and continuing education credits are free. Requirements for
obtaining continuing education include reading The Road to Health Toolkit User’s Guide, Flipchart
(English and Spanish), and Activities Guide,
registering on the CDC’s continuing
education Web site (http://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline), and completing an
evaluation form and post-test.
Release
and Expiration Dates
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Expiration Date: November 1, 2011
Disclosure
Statement
CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose that they
have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of
commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial
supporters. Content will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of
a product or a product under investigational use.
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the following for contributions made to this toolkit from
members of the following:
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Hispanic/Latino Work Group:
Isabel Salinas Almendárez, MPH, Current Chair
Paul Baker, BA
Julia Burgos, BA
Javier Carrillo, MPH
Yanira L. Cruz, MPH, DrPH, Past Chair
Luby Garza, MS, RD, LD
Eliana Loveluck, MSW
Cheryl Metheny, MS, RD/LDN, CDE
Wanda Montalvo, RN, MSN, ANP
Jaime Torres, DPM, MS
NDEP African American African Ancestry Work Group:
Janet Brown-Friday, RN, MSN, MPH
CDC:
Leticia R. Dávila, MPH, NDEP ORISE Fellow
Rita V. Díaz-Kenney, MPH, RD, LD
Sabrina Harper, MS
Jane Kelly, MD
Michelle Owens, PhD
Betsy Rodríguez, MSN, CDE
Dawn Satterfield, RN, PhD
National Institutes of Health (NIH):
Joanne Gallivan, MS, RD
Rachel Weinstein, MEd
Link to The Road to Health Toolkit
The Road to Health Toolkit
Page last reviewed: March 20, 2009
Page last modified: March 20, 2009
Content Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Diabetes Translation
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