From left, Katie Judge and Lety Wilke
Care in Community: How Shared Medical Appointments Improve Diabetes Care and Education
About one in 10 Americans have diabetes, a chronic condition that can lead to circulatory, renal and nervous system disorders. The Hispanic population in the United States is disproportionately impacted by diabetes, with Hispanic individuals being 1.5 times more likely to die from diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.
Leticia (Lety) Wilke and Kathleen (Katie) Judge, current students in UCSF’s Post Master’s Entry to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) pathway, are leading efforts to address this inequity by providing diabetes care and education in Spanish for Spanish-speaking patients at their endocrinology clinic.
In this episode, Wilke and Judge discuss their work and highlight how an interprofessional team-led shared appointment model of care is effective in advancing diabetes care and education for linguistically diverse patients.
The guest host for this episode is Allie Siegel, a student in the school’s BSN Entry to the DNP pathway, Family Nurse Practitioner specialty.
About Illuminating Health
Illuminating Health is the official UCSF School of Nursing podcast that sheds light on health and health care issues that affect our daily lives. Listen in to short conversations with today’s leading health experts. This episode is produced by Lisa Klope in the UCSF School of Nursing's Office of Communications and Marketing.
