title: Diabetes Case Management in Primary Care: The New Brunswick Experience and Expanding the Practice of the Certified Diabetes Educator Nurse into Primary Care.
abstract: The role of the outreach diabetes case manager in New Brunswick, Canada, was first developed in the Moncton Area of Horizon Health Network in response to a physician-identified gap between patients' diagnoses of diabetes and their attendance at the local diabetes education centre. This model of collaborative interprofessional practice increases support for primary care providers and people living with diabetes in that they are being provided the services of certified diabetes educators who can address knowledge gaps with respect to evidence-based guidelines and best practice, promote advancement of diabetes and chronic-disease management therapies and support adherence to treatment plans and self-management practices. This report chronicles a review of the implementation, expansion and evaluation of the outreach diabetes case manager model in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, along with the rationale for development of the role for registered nurses in other jurisdictions.
authors: Horizon Health Network, Moncton Area, New Brunswick, Canada. Electronic address: Shelley.Jones@HorizonNB.ca.
authors: Shelley L
authors: SL
authors: Jones
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000639:trends*; D002568:Certification; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D009509:New Brunswick / Q000453:epidemiology; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*
keywords: certified diabetes educator; chronic disease; diabetes case manager; educateur agréé en diabète; gestionnaire de cas de diabète; infirmiers autorisés; maladie chronique; primary care; registered nurse; soins primaires