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Translating diabetes management evidence into practice - supporting new graduates to achieve credentialling and supporting you to build dissemination skills

The Primary Care Diabetes Society of Australia’s (PCDSA) mission is to support primary health care professionals to deliver high-quality clinically effective care to improve the lives of people living with diabetes.

Part of that support involves access to research in a form that can be used in practice, called Knowledge Translation.

The PCDSA are seeking graduates from the Diabetes Education Graduate Certificate Course who would be interested in working with a mentor at the PCDSA to help:

• Translate evidence to practical information for:
  • social media; or
  • health discipline publications.
• helping PCDSA through events such as webinars (post COVID: conferences).

This will involve working with PCDSA members to develop information in a way that will be readily accessible to the broader primary health care community and will contribute towards CDE credentials.

Duration: negotiable, suggest around 10 weeks

Please contact our chair via email

Welcome Deborah Schubert!

Deborah has been working in diabetes since 2005.

At Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospital in London, she worked in retinal screening, as a Diabetes Sister in charge of the diabetes pre-assessment clinic and conducting endocrine tests, worked as a Diabetes Inpatient Nurse and as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse in the community in Southwark.

In Australia, Deborah has been working as a RN, CDE since 2012. She currently works for The Royal Melbourne Hospital as a HARP CDE in the community, working with people with diabetes with complex health issues.

Thank you

Many thanks to Debra Hawthorne who has been supporting PCDSA with translating some of our works for social media. We wish her well for the future.