Goals & Objectives

The Diabetes Nursing Interest Group acts as the voice of the nursing profession for diabetes nursing in Ontario. Diabetes is a common chronic condition, and DNIG brings together specialist and generalist nurses from across the fields of practice.

The diabetes nursing interest group

• provides a forum for the discussion of issues within the diabetes care nursing community
• contributes a nursing voice on diabetes related practice, education, and research issues
• advocates / lobbies at the provincial level on diabetes care (professional nursing issues as well as quality of care concerns from consumer perspective)
• supports continuing nursing education relevant to diabetes care and prevention,
• strives to establish a network for information sharing and collaboration within diabetes nursing and with other health care professionals.