Managing Diabetes

Diabetes Education

• Diabetes Management Apps
  These apps are some of our favorites for tracking various aspects of diabetes management; links to articles about other diabetes apps are also included.
• Diabetes Metaphor
  This worksheet provides an example of metaphors using everyday objects to help you better understand the mechanisms of diabetes and the role of diabetes management.
• Diabetes Disaster Preparedness
  This resource provides you with a list of recommended medical supplies you should have stored in case of an emergency. It includes special instructions about insulin, pens, and syringes.
• Drinking with Diabetes
  This resource has information regarding diabetes-specific considerations when drinking alcohol, such as risk for hypoglycemia.
• Alcohol 101
  This resource has general information regarding how the body processes alcohol, blood alcohol concentration, and drinking “levels”.
• Alcohol Use Business Cards
  These fillable cards summarize information from the “Drinking with Diabetes” resource and provide space for you to include additional information, such as carb counts for your favorite drinks.
• Marijuana and Diabetes
  This resource provides information about how marijuana affects diabetes and tips for safe consumption and diabetes care.
• Tattoos and Diabetes
  This resource offers considerations for A1c levels and tattoo placement to minimize risk of infection.
• How Drugs Affect Diabetes
  This resources offers information regarding how consuming legal and illegal drugs can affect diabetes management.

Complications and Complexities

• Hyperglycemia Emergency Plan
  This resource offers a place to write down your emergency contact information and has detailed information regarding causes, symptoms, and actions others should know about in the event that you have a hyperglycemic episode.
• Hypoglycemia Emergency Plan
  This resource offers a place to write down your emergency contact information and has detailed information regarding causes, symptoms, and actions others should know about in the event that you have a hypoglycemic episode.

Treatment Regimen

• Taking Medications
  This worksheet encourages you to think about what you know about your medications, such as how much, when, and why to take them.

Diabetes Supplies

There are currently no worksheets for this section. Check out the “Other Resources” column to the right for information about current diabetes technology and how to use diabetes devices. The Accessing Healthcare module also has some resources about locating and purchasing diabetes supplies.

Blood Glucose Tracking and Monitoring

• What Does HbA1c Mean Anyway?
  This resource provides a definition of HbA1C and a chart showing the correlation between average blood sugar and % HbA1C.
• HbA1c Blood Glucose Conversion
  This chart shows HbA1c Values (%) and the correlated estimated average glucose (mg/dl).
• Insulin Dose Adjustment Worksheet
  This worksheet is meant to be used as an exercise in problem solving through various scenarios that require insulin dosage adjustments.
• Blood Sugar Log
  This worksheet allows you to chart four weeks of blood sugar values with daily checks at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime.
• Food and Blood Sugar Worksheet
  This worksheet allows you to track blood sugar, carb intake, and insulin dosages throughout the day. It also includes ideal average ranges for blood glucose before and after meals that you can use to set glucose level goals for yourself.

Diabetes-Specific Considerations for Health Promoting Engagement in Occupations

• Carb Counts for Common Foods
  Provides the carb count for many of the most commonly eaten foods, divided into food groups/categories.
• Food Diary Log
  This worksheet is a charting tool for you to monitor food intake throughout the day, including carb counting and medication administration.
• Carb Counting Visual Worksheet
  This worksheet provides an opportunity to practice counting carbs visually and figure out how much insulin is necessary.
• Slow and Fast-Absorbing Carbs
  This resource serves as a quick guide to understanding complex and simple carbs, their glycemic indexes, and the impact they can have on blood sugar levels.
• Carb Counting
  This resource provides example nutrition labels and explains a formula for using serving size and total carbohydrates to calculate a food’s carb count.