<h3>Dr. Bree Holtz's summary of the article, Management of Children with Diabetes in the School Setting</h3>
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<h3><strong>Article Overview</strong></h3>
This journal article is about the role of diabetes educators when there is a child with diabetes in school.  The article is a position piece of the American Academy of Diabetes Educators. While the article does mention type 2 diabetes management and other types of diabetes, this article seems to be generally focused on management of type 1.

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My biggest takeaway</strong></h3>
<img class=" wp-image-612 alignright" src="http://myt1d.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1280px-Children_in_a_classroom-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="364" height="242" />It offers a description of what a diabetes educator does and the role they can take when trying to navigate care of a child in the school setting.  This is the part of the article that I thought might be the most helpful for parents to know.  From the, admittedly very few parents I have talked to, I’m not sure that people are using diabetes educators in this way.  The article says that a diabetes educator can  (p.35, direct quote):
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 	<li>Be the primary contact and liaison between the school, parent/guardian, and diabetes health care team</li>
 	<li>Be a resource for training and educating the school nurse and school personnel in the care of students with diabetes</li>
 	<li>Educate and facilitate behavior change of students with diabetes, parents/guardians, and school personnel</li>
 	<li>Provide resources and expertise to help develop, implement, and update the written school-based diabetes medical management plan (DMMP)</li>
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<h3><strong>Other key points</strong></h3>
The paper then briefly describes:
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 	<li>laws surrounding care for students with diabetes;</li>
 	<li>plans for diabetes management</li>
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They also go on to describe how the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) 7 Self-Care Behaviors can be applied to the school setting.  This is something that they are really promoting throughout the profession and it is called AADE7 for short. These behaviors include:
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 	<li>Healthy Eating</li>
 	<li>Being Active</li>
 	<li>Monitoring</li>
 	<li>Taking Medication</li>
 	<li>Problem Solving</li>
 	<li>Health Coping</li>
 	<li>Reducing Risks</li>
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They then provide a list of additional resources that could be helpful to parents.

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<h3>Reference:</h3>
AADE (2017). Management of Children with Diabetes in the School Settings, The Diabetes Educator, 43: 36-39.

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