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Clinical skills · Focus area 7

Supporting ongoing use

Help people keep using their technology as life, motivation and needs change. This skill covers recognizing barriers and burnout, building routines and keeping confidence up over time.

This page brings together an everyday backup kit check, a connected pen guide, site care tools and education on psychological barriers and long-term engagement.

Curated bydanatech Clinical Staff
UpdatedNovember 2026

What this skill covers

Sustained engagement, habit formation and long-term confidence.

Barriers and burnout

  • Identifying barriers to continued use
  • Recognizing diabetes burnout and diabetes distress
  • Addressing frustration and overwhelm

Building habits

  • Supporting habit formation and routine use
  • Simplifying device use and data interpretation over time

Staying engaged

  • Reinforcing education as needed
  • Supporting long-term confidence and engagement

If someone wants to stop using a device

Stopping a device should never mean stopping insulin.

  • Make sure the person has a backup insulin plan before pausing or stopping a pump or AID system
  • Signs of diabetes distress or depression: follow your setting’s screening and referral process
  • Concerns about insulin omission or disordered eating: refer to the diabetes care team

Start here

The three resources we recommend first for this skill. CE/CME credit and end dates are shown where offered; available credit varies by profession.

  • WebinarLearn0.75 CE/CME · through Aug 10, 2027

    Move the Conversation Beyond Numbers: Address Unmet Psychological Needs as Technology Advances

    Recognizing distress and burnout, and keeping the conversation about the person, not only the data.

    View webinar
  • WorkflowApply

    Build an Everyday Diabetes Backup Kit

    Check a person’s everyday insulin, monitoring and backup supplies, find what’s missing and give them a personalized backup plan.

    Open backup kit check
  • Certificate ProgramLearn7.75 CE/CME · through Apr 19, 2027

    ADCES7 Self-Care Behaviors Certificate Program

    A self-paced, case-based certificate on the seven self-care behaviors that shape long-term technology use.

    View certificate program

Find tools and resources

Choose a resource based on your clinical question or the setting where you’re providing care. Each is labeled by type and by how you’ll use it: Learn, Practice or Apply.

More learning and CE

Courses, webinars and certificate programs for this skill, with current CE/CME status. Available credit varies by profession.

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Sources and scope
  1. ADA Professional Practice Committee. 5. Facilitating Positive Health Behaviors and Well-being to Improve Health Outcomes: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026. Diabetes Care 2026;49(Suppl 1).
  2. ADA Professional Practice Committee. 7. Diabetes Technology: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026. Diabetes Care 2026;49(Suppl 1).
  3. danatech Diabetes Technology Key Focus Areas framework, revised 2026.

For educational use. Not clinical advice; does not replace clinical judgment, scope of practice, institutional policy or manufacturer instructions.

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