Understanding the care and management of Diabetes Level 2 UNIT 1 Assessment 1.1 Understand the function of glucose in the blood 1) 1.1 Explain what ‘blood glucose’ is: Blood glucose is glucose in the blood stream. Glucose comes from eating and digesting carbohydrates. 2) 1.2 Describe the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates: Carbohydrates that break down rapidly during digestion are known as simple carbohydrates because they rapidly release glucose into the blood stream. Carbohydrates
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Bloom Research and Response Paper Benjamin Bloom developed Bloom’s Taxonomy in 1956. It identifies three domains: cognitive‚ affective‚ and psychomotor‚ used to evaluate knowledge assimilated by the learner. Each domain has hierarchical categories that progressively measure the level of understanding achieved. This paper reviews each domain and list the categories found within‚ discuss how Bloom’s taxonomy apply to the case study presented by Larkin and Burton’s article ‘Evaluating a Case Study
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Mosquitoes are insects that transmit a blood parasite that causes diseases. In the past‚ mosquito-borne disease presented sever problem to different parts of the world. Researchers began to study mosquitoes by its taxonomy‚ morphology and internal characteristics of the insects for obtaining the reason why they cause such disease. One of the disease caused by mosquitoes is malaria‚ malaria is not the lone mosquito-borne disease that caused
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The Coast of Diabetes Audience: Group of classmates General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To provide the audience with information about Diabetes and increase their knowledge. Introduction: -- Attention-getter: -- Qualifications/credibility: I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 11 months old. For the past 5 years I was making research on how to keep diabetes under control and avoid complications. -- Audience motivation/relevance: During my presentation I will give you
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Delaney Sebben English 2 basic April 7‚ 2014 Diabetes I. Diabetes is a metabolic disease where the body cannot make enough or any insulin. There are many ways to prevent diabetes‚ by knowing the symptoms and causes. diabetes is a disease with very few treatments‚ but it can affect your life in many ways. II. Finding ways to prevent all types and kinds of diabetes. A. make sure that you are staying physically active for more than two hours a day it is very
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Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) resulting from defects in insulin production and secretion‚ decreased cellular response to insulin‚ or both. This leads to hyperglycemia‚ which may lead to acute metabolic complications‚ such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome (HHNS). Longterm hyperglycemia may contribute to chronic microvascular complications (kidney and eye disease)
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Bloom ’s Taxonomy and Nursing Education Beverly Andrus NUR/427 Health and Chronic Disease Management January 9‚ 2012 Myra Ball Bloom ’s Taxonomy and Nursing Education Bloom’s Taxonomy model has three domains. These are cognitive‚ affective‚ and psychomotor. Nurses use these three domains when they are teaching patients. It takes knowledge‚ attitude‚ and skills for patients to learn something new that they will need to know to take care of themselves effectively. Nurses use Blooms educational
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INTRODUCTION Diabetes is a disease that is frequently a cause of incapacity to work‚ disability‚ premature aging‚ and early death. The science has very powerful means to combat it‚ but it is necessary to follow a regime of life‚ and adequately feeding; the purpose is to prevent it‚ or in case that the disease exists‚ to make it more benign. Many doctors consider diabetes as a sick manifestation of a serious matter and very important‚ as is the human being is gradually lost as a result of living
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In America‚ Diabetes is becoming a widely prominent disease. Diabetes can be the result of many things from unlucky genetics to an unhealthy lifestyle. Diabetes is a serious‚ life-long illness ultimately caused by high levels of glucose in the blood. The condition makes it so that the pancreas cannot produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that controls the blood’s glucose level. Glucose is significant since it is “the main source of fuel” for the body (Wilson‚ 2013). The American Diabetes Association
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Diabetes‚ what is it? Diabetes is defined by Wikipedia “as a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar‚ either because the body does not produce enough insulin‚ or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.” Diabetes is a chronic debilitating disease that affects over 8 percent of the American population‚ however‚ with diet‚ exercise and medication‚ it is controllable and patients can live a long meaningful life with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes
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