201 KAR 45:160 - Scope of practice
RELATES TO: KRS 309.331, 309.339
NECESSITY, FUNCTION AND CONFORMITY: KRS 309.331 requires the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of KRS 309.325 to 309.339. This administrative regulation establishes the functions that a diabetes educator may perform.
Section 1. A
person holding a license or a permit from the board may perform the following
functions:
(1) Provide education and support
for people with diabetes, people at risk for diabetes, and caregivers of those
with diabetes;
(2) Communicate and
coordinate with other health care professionals to provide education and
support for people with diabetes, people at risk for diabetes, and caregivers
of those with diabetes;
(3) Provide
diabetes self-management services, including activities that assist a person in
implementing and sustaining the behaviors needed to manage diabetes on an
ongoing basis;
(4) Determine the
persons to whom diabetes education and services will be provided, how those
education and services may be best delivered, and what resources will assist
those persons;
(5) Develop a
program for diabetes management, which may include:
(a) Describing the diabetes treatment process
and treatment options;
(b)
Incorporating nutritional management into lifestyle;
(c) Incorporating physical activity into
lifestyle;
(d) Using medications
safely and effectively;
(e)
Monitoring blood glucose and other parameters and interpreting and using the
results for self-management and decision making;
(f) Preventing, detecting, and treating acute
and chronic complications of diabetes;
(g) Developing personal strategies to address
psychosocial issues and concerns; or
(h) Developing personal strategies to promote
health and behavior change;
(6) Develop an individualized education and
support plan focused on behavior change, which shall be documented in an
education or health record;
(7)
Develop a personalized follow-up plan for ongoing self-management support, and
communicate that follow-up plan to other health care providers as
necessary;
(8) Monitor if
participants are achieving their personal diabetes self-management goals and
other outcomes using the following appropriate frameworks and measurement
techniques:
(a) Physical activity;
(b) Healthy eating;
(c) Taking medication;
(d) Monitoring blood glucose;
(e) Diabetes self-care related problem
solving;
(f) Reducing risks of
acute and chronic complications of diabetes;
(g) Evaluation of the psychosocial aspects of
living with diabetes; or
(9) Evaluate the effectiveness of the
education and services, and engage in a systematic review of process and
outcome data.
Notes
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 309.331
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