From Abby: Do You Have What It Takes?

Abby is an RN, a PWD, and en route to becoming a CDE.  (Her last name will eventually snap off due to all of the accompanying letters.)  As she's worked through her schooling and now her experience in the field, her scope of what she's learned through life with diabetes as a patient and what she's learned through school and experience as a nurse are very different, and both play a rule in her pursuit of a CDE certification.  *   *   *My goal when applying to nursing school in 2009 was simple: become a Certified Diabetes Educator. I wanted NOTHING to do with nursing, and I for sure did not want to become a "regular nurse" like my mom because her job, to me, was gross.  (I'd seen the videos and heard the stories. No thanks.)As I'm sure you're aware (or if you're not, check out the website), the requirements to be certified are not simple, nor quick. In fact, they almost seem impossible and over-the-top strict. Diabetes is not that difficult to understand, if you're living with it - and those of us who have had it for more than half our lives should be given some slack, as far as application goes, right? Or at least be able to by-pass the medical credentials?Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am here to explain to you WHY becoming a CDE is so gosh darned difficult, and why you should really appreciate those who have passed the exam and kept up their title - and how freaking smart they are. Type 1 diabetes can be fairly simple, in desc...
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