Nurses

Nurses work in different areas:
• The outpatient clinic, the ward and the type 2 clinic
• The Diabetes Unit at Rigshospitalet
• The eyeclinic
• Clinical Research Unit
• Steno Education Center
• In Research teams

Work area
The specialist diabetes nurses hold individual consultations with patients in the outpatient clinic and work together with the other practitioners on the diabetes care teams. The nurses work on a rotational basis between the outpatient ward and the outpatient clinic. The diabetes unit at Rigshospitalet has a fulltime specialist diabetes nurse. The nurses share the staffing of Steno Diabetes Center’s 24-hour telephone service.

Work placement and experience
Steno Diabetes Center offers work placement and experience for student nurses in their 6th semester from the CVU Øresund, Nursing School in Herlev.

Courses and further education
Nurses in Steno Diabetes Center have the opportunity of receiving further education to qualify as a specialist diabetes nurse, or as a clinical nurse specialist in diabetes or in diabetic eye diseases. Courses are held both internally and externally, at one of The Capital Region of Copenhagen's training centres or in other organisations for diabetes specialist nurses.

Meetings and other activities
Nursing meetings are held once a month. Two theme afternoons are arranged annually.