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Assessment for Diabetic Patient
Health care delivery and education are crucial for health care providers. Nurses and other professionals are challenged to assure that the patients have the necessary information to make informed decisions. Patients and their families should have the right to access information about their health and commonly make important decisions from the facts. Diabetic patients need such information so take care of their diet among other things. However, there are certain obstacles that prevent easy delivery of health care information. These obstacles include literacy, language, culture and sociological barriers. It is up to the nurse to assess …show more content…
He is 45-year-old. The boodle sugar is 1500, and this creates the need for the patient to be admitted to Intensive Care Unit. The patient is in an insulin glucose tolerance test per protocol. The goal of the treatment is to reduce the blood sugar at 70-200 per md order. The patient has been oriented three times and is alert. During the assessment, I asked the patient about his knowledge about diabetes. The answer revealed that he does not know how to check his blood sugar properly and interpret the results. In addition, the patient is not informed about diet regimes and still does not know about the consequences of uncontrolled blood sugars. Ineffective health maintenance is related to uncontrolled diabetes and reporting the lack of education about diabetes was evidenced by high blood sugar and knowledge deficient about controlled diabetes (Ozcan & Erol, 2007).
Teaching should have some positive outcomes to the patient and in this case, there are some expected outcomes.
i. The patient should demonstrate how to take his blood sugar and interpret the results ii. The patient should demonstrate how to give himself insulin injections using the sliding …show more content…
All written information could be prepared at a reading level appropriate for the general population. New packages for patient information prior to their first clinic visit could be very useful to them. Where there are language barriers, demonstrations could be effective teaching strategy if appropriate for the situation. Using multiple teaching strategies is a good option for patient education. Pictures and illustrations are also useful for enhancing printed materials for patients with low literacy skills. However, the illustrations should be non-ambiguous and should also be accompanied by a text written in simple language (Friedman, Boyko, Cosby, Hatton-Bauer, & Turnbull,