Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia

Hyperglycemia is a term used to describe an abnormally high sugar levels within the blood. Stress-induced hyperglycemia is common in critically ill patients, even if they never had diabetes previously. Their compromised health condition puts them at a higher mortality compared to the patients with normal blood glucose. Stress-induced hyperglycemia is a critical condition and needs to be quickly managed, thus a glycemic control therapy is initiated (Silva-Perez et al., 2017, p. 90). In this essay, the stress-induced hyperglycemia will be explored further, the importance of insulin therapy initiation, the Canadian target values for normoglycemia, and risk associated with the insulin therapy. Most importantly, the effects on the nursing practice