Effective patient-provider communication is the foundation for providing patient-centered diabetes care. This webinar will focus on teaching the strategies that diabetes educators, health educators and community health workers can use to enhance and improve patient-provider communication.

The webinar will include an overview of the latest recommendations for improving patient-provider communication, along with practical strategies you can use to increase patient self-efficacy in communicating with health care providers.

Learn how diabetes educators are using the New Beginnings Discussion Guide to address this essential topic in diabetes self-management education.

Objectives

By the end of the webinar participants will be able to:

• Discuss the importance of quality patient-provider communication.
• Describe approaches for patient engagement in effective communication.
• Name at least two strategies for teaching patient-provider communication skills to people with diabetes.

This program has been approved for CNE, CEU, CECH and CPH credit.

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