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Diabetes Awareness Training
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Learn diabetes awareness covering types, symptoms, risk factors, blood glucose, hypo and hyperglycaemia, complications, lifestyle, monitoring, and support.
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Overview
Diabetes Awareness Training provides essential knowledge about diabetes, its main types, risk factors, symptoms, treatment approaches, and potential complications. The course introduces how diabetes affects blood glucose regulation and explores the importance of healthy eating, physical activity, medication awareness, monitoring, and regular healthcare. Learners will develop a clearer understanding of how diabetes can affect everyday life and how appropriate awareness can support safer, more informed interactions with people living with the condition.
Recognising diabetes-related concerns requires awareness, observation, and appropriate action. Learners will examine common symptoms, blood glucose concepts, hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia, lifestyle factors, medication awareness, monitoring, foot care, and possible long-term complications. The programme also considers how family members, carers, support workers, and colleagues can communicate respectfully and respond appropriately when someone experiences a diabetes-related concern, while understanding the limits of non-clinical support.
Diabetes awareness can be valuable across healthcare support, social care, childcare, workplaces, community services, and personal development. The programme is suitable for carers, support workers, healthcare administrators, family members, employees, volunteers, and individuals seeking foundational health knowledge. Alongside subject knowledge, learners can strengthen transferable capabilities including observation, communication, health awareness, record keeping, risk recognition, empathy, responsible decision-making, emergency awareness, teamwork, and supportive practice.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand fundamental principles and types of diabetes
- Explore causes, risk factors, symptoms, and diagnosis
- Understand blood glucose, hypoglycaemia, and hyperglycaemia
- Explore lifestyle, nutrition, exercise, and diabetes management
- Recognise potential diabetes-related complications and warning signs
- Develop awareness of medication, monitoring, and healthcare support
- Strengthen safe, respectful, and informed diabetes awareness
Why choose this course
- Affordable, Accessible, informative and well-structured study materials
- Earn a globally recognised accredited qualification
- Study in your own time, at your own pace, through any device
- Benefit from feedback through mock exams and multiple-choice assessments
- Excellent career advancement/career switch opportunities
- Get 24/7 help or advice from our email and live chat teams
Certification
Endorsed Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme
Upon successful completion of the final assessment, you will be eligible to apply for the Quality Licence Scheme Endorsed Certificate of achievement. This certificate will be delivered to your doorstep through the post for £99. An extra £10 postage charge will be required for students leaving overseas.
CPD Accredited Certificate
After the successful completion of the final assessment, you will receive a CPD-accredited certificate of achievement. The PDF certificate is for 9.99, and it will be sent to you immediately after through e-mail. You can get the hard copy for 15.99, which will reach your doorsteps by post.
Method of Assessment
At the end of the course, there will be an online MCQ assessment. In order to pass this exam, you must score at least 60%. When you submit the assessment, you will get the results immediately and can apply for your QLS-endorsed certificate.
Entry Requirements
No formal qualifications or previous healthcare experience are required. The course is suitable for beginners, carers, support workers, family members, and individuals interested in understanding diabetes. A general interest in health and wellbeing will be beneficial.
Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for:
- Healthcare and social care support workers
- Carers and family members
- Workplace and community staff
- Healthcare administration professionals
- Individuals seeking diabetes awareness knowledge
Career Paths
This course can support progression into roles and opportunities such as:
- Healthcare Support Assistant
- Care Support Worker
- Community Support Assistant
- Health and Wellbeing Assistant
- Patient Support Assistant
- Care Home Support Worker
Course Curriculum
| Module 01: What is Diabetes | |||
| What is Diabetes | 00:22:00 | ||
| Module 02: The Diabetes Challenge | |||
| The Diabetes Challenge | 00:28:00 | ||
| Module 03: The Cost of Diabetes in Social Care | |||
| The Cost of Diabetes in Social Care | 00:20:00 | ||
| Module 04: Type 1 Diabetes | |||
| Type 1 Diabetes | 00:24:00 | ||
| Module 05: Type 2 Diabetes | |||
| Type 2 Diabetes | 00:27:00 | ||
| Module 06: Type 2 Diabetes Treatments | |||
| Type 2 Diabetes Treatments | 00:29:00 | ||
| Module 07: Prediabetes | |||
| Prediabetes | 00:13:00 | ||
| Module 08: Gestational Diabetes | |||
| Gestational Diabetes | 00:25:00 | ||
| Module 09: Other Types of Diabetes | |||
| Other Types of Diabetes | 00:15:00 | ||
| Module 10: Hypoglycaemia | |||
| Hypoglycaemia | 00:21:00 | ||
| Module 11: Hyperglycaemia and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State | |||
| Hyperglycaemia and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State | 00:34:00 | ||
| Module 12: Glossary of Diabetes Terms | |||
| Glossary of Diabetes Terms | 00:58:00 | ||
| Assignment | |||
| Assignment – Diabetes Awareness Training | 2 weeks, 1 day | ||
| Order Your Certificate | |||
| Order your Certificate QLS | 00:00:00 | ||
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This course introduces essential knowledge about diabetes, including its main types, symptoms, risk factors, blood glucose, treatment approaches, complications, lifestyle considerations, and ways to support people living with diabetes.
Yes. No previous healthcare or diabetes experience is required. It is suitable for carers, support workers, family members, employees, volunteers, and anyone seeking basic diabetes awareness.
You will explore diabetes types, symptoms, risk factors, blood glucose, hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia, nutrition, physical activity, monitoring, medication awareness, complications, and appropriate support.
Diabetes is a group of conditions in which blood glucose levels become too high because the body does not produce enough insulin, does not use insulin effectively, or both. Different types of diabetes have different causes and management requirements.
The main types include Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes. Other less common forms also exist. Each type has different causes, characteristics, and management considerations.
Symptoms can include increased thirst, frequent urination, tiredness, unexplained weight loss, blurred vision, and increased hunger. Some people, particularly those with Type 2 diabetes, may have few noticeable symptoms for a long period.
Hypoglycaemia, often called a hypo, occurs when blood glucose falls too low. Symptoms can include sweating, shaking, hunger, confusion, weakness, dizziness, or changes in behaviour. Severe hypoglycaemia can become an emergency.
For this course, you will have access to the course materials for 1 year only. This means you can review the content as often as you like within the year, even after you've completed the course. However, if you buy Lifetime Access for the course, you will be able to access the course for a lifetime.
Yes, upon successfully completing the course, you will receive a certificate of completion. This certificate can be a valuable addition to your professional portfolio and can be shared on your various social networks.
We want you to have a positive learning experience. If you're not satisfied with the course, you can request a course transfer or refund within 14 days of the initial purchase.
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If you encounter technical issues or content-related difficulties with the course, our support team is available to assist you. You can reach out to them for prompt resolution.