Diabetes Care Concentration
The Diabetes Care concentration consists of a series of courses that focus on advanced preparation in the sub-specialty of diabetes care practice and management.The coursework encompasses diabetes care, its complications across the lifespan and includes the pathophysiology and management of type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, monogenic forms of diabetes and gestational diabetes.
Students are required to complete a series of clinical seminars and a didactic course, which include comprehensive management of patients with diabetes. They will also complete a minimum of 67.5 hours of clinical practice with a diabetes specialist (APRN, PA or MD) as part of their final year clinical requirements for their specialty.
The concentration is open to students in the Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Adult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, Midwifery/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner- Primary Care and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care specialties in their final year of study. The concentration is designed to prepare specialists in these fields for practice in diabetes care and management.
All students in the concentration enroll in Advanced Concepts and Principles of Diabetes Care (NURS 6100), Clinical Conference in Diabetes Care and Management (NURS 6110 and NURS 6111), and Clinical Practice in Diabetes Care and Management (N6113), which requires four hours per week (67.5 total hours) of clinical practice caring for people with diabetes.
Questions or for more information, please contact:
Elizabeth Ann Doyle, DNP, APRN, PPCNP-BC, CDCES
email: elizabeth.doyle@yale.edu
phone: 203-737-7502
fax: 203-785-6455
Dr. Doyle is an Associate Professor in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialty and holds a joint appointment as a PNP/CDE for Yale Pediatric Endocrinology, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. She is the coordinator of the Yale School of Nursing Diabetes Concentration for final year MSN students, teaches PNP students in the areas of chronic illness/specialty care, and serves as an advisor for both Master in Nursing (MSN) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students. Dr. Doyle has served as a courtesy faculty member for Yale School of Nursing for close to 30 years, years, precepting students in their specialty rotations, both PNP and FNP students in the Diabetes Care concentration.