Diabetes management

method to control and prevent diabetic complications is self- care. In order to manage their diabetes successfully and reduce risk factors leading to mortality and morbidity associated with diabetes related complications, patients must acquire and maintain self-management skills for achieving adequate glycemic control, blood lipids and blood pressure as well as weight management. Successful management of diabetes requires patient’s and family’s awareness in achieving and maintaining schedule for proper

Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus HOME Who am I? Interesting Articles Helpful Hints & Links Publication Guidelines Advertising Info Contacting Me Visit me at work at Lehigh Valley Wellness Center by Louise Diehl, RN, MSN, ND, CCRN, ACNS-BC, NP-C Nurse Practitioner - Owner Doctor of Naturopathy Lehigh Valley Wellness Center Before you begin your teaching plan be sure to define the characteristics of the clinical site and patient population. The teaching plan

years, together they have 1 son. Luigi has had declining health issues for 15 years due to poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, resulting with a diagnosis of chronic renal failure. Luigi has now been hospitalised. This essay will discuss the importance for Luigi to develop self-management, empowerment and advocacy skills. It will demonstrate the role of the registered nurse in the management of patients, including Luigi, with chronic and complex conditions. The essay will go on to briefly discuss collaboration

in patients with diabetes mellitus. As the rate of diabetes mellitus and obesity continue to rise, the cornerstone for effective diabetes prevention and management remains physical activity (exercise). Regular exercise provides many benefits, including reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, reduced blood pressure, improved glycemia, weight management, and improvement in overall quality of life. Thus, in the absence of contraindications, patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes are encouraged to

Consider J.M. J. M. a 43-year-old Hispanic female with type 2 diabetes, with lipid abnormalities and hypertension. LDL 174, HDL 52 and Triglycerides 32, A1C 9.3, microalbumin 32, and fasting blood glucose of 216 with average glucose variance of 200mg/dl, blood pressure 145/89, morbidly obese at 262 pounds. She has been diabetic for 10 years and has not seen an educator since her diagnosis. She previously danced for exercise, but has not done so in a while to work and family obligations. She has three

but by many health care providers.1 There are many chronic diseases that affect older people. One of the most common chronic diseases is diabetes mellitus, especially type 2 diabetes mellitus. With an increase of people with diabetes mellitus, there is also an increase need for health care professionals that will effectively take care of them. Even though diabetes mellitus is a disease where the patient is usually the one in control of taking care of him or herself, professionals are essential to

United States help people reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes with the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program. This program helps individuals with prediabetes eat healthier, increase physical activity and lose weight to delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes (“Program Overview,” 2017). In the program, a trained lifestyle coach guides small group discussion about behavior changes that can be beneficial for diabetes management through 25 one-hour sessions delivered across a one year time-span

started by entering words such as “diabetes self-management” and “diabetes AND technology”. I refined my search by limiting the articles to full text, published between 2011 and 2015, academic journals and English as the language. I will now present the articles to decide whether education makes a difference in the way patients with diabetes manage their care. Article one, “The effect of Educational Interventions on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” by

of this analysis is to understand the concept of self-care in relation to patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus from Dorthea Orem’s theories: theory of self-care, theory of self-care deficit, the theory of nursing systems, and the theory of dependent care. Each step of the framework provided by Walker and Avant (2005) will be used to evaluate the concept of self-care for patients with diabetes in the following sections: definition, literature review, defining attributes, antecedents, consequences

Diabetes Prevention Program: A Systematic Review Arka Chaudhary, Jeanette Lovato, Jacob Sup, Julie Smithwick, Rasiq Zackria Year 2 – Epidemiology Dr. Joy Lewis Due date: 12/1/2014 RDME(s): Dr. Chris Dixon, Dr. Ray Wagner Introduction Diabetes is a serious health condition that could potentially lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and many other complications, if left uncontrolled. Almost all patients that develop diabetes type 2 have prediabetes, a condition where blood