Did you know that diabetes can cause severe health complications and even death? Well I didn’t quite know that until today. Over 29.1 people have diabetes‚ that’s about 1 out of every 11 person in this world. Having diabetes can be extremely dangerous‚ with that being said in the United States diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death. Some of the complications include blindness‚ heart disease‚ and kidney failure. If you experience frequent urination‚ excessive thirst‚ unexplained weight loss
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Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus Bonny York Jacksonville University Nursing 342 October 10 2011 Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus 1 The Identified Learning Need Patients with diabetes have very comprhensive learning needs. The learning needs are focused on managing their glucose levels and preventing complications of diabetes. Learning needs
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DIABETES Genetic vs. Environmental Gina Hume Ivy Tech Community College – Northwest Indiana July 20‚ 2011 DIABETES Genetic vs. Environmental Thesis: Is diabetes really a genetic disorder or could its causes lie in environmental factors? I. Statistics from American Diabetes Association A. 2006 number of cases B. Current number of cases in 2011 C. Number of deaths annually II. Define diabetes A. Define type I
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Diabetes affects the body’s ability to use blood sugar for energy. The main types of diabetes include type 1 diabetes‚ type 2 diabetes‚ and gestational diabetes. A person with uncontrolled diabetes can run into a lot of problems later in life. If not controlled‚ diabetes can put you at risk for a multitude of complications that can affect nearly every organ in the body. These organs may include‚ the heart and blood vessels‚ the eyes‚ the kidneys‚ the nerve endings‚ and also the gums and teeth. Later
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Diabetes and the risk that comes with it Carl L. Tabb SCI/163 August 2‚ 2011 Diabetes and the risk that comes with it 23.6 million Americans have diabetes in all ages ranges says The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. Diabetes occurs when your body’s sugar levels are abnormally high or the body is not responding to insulin. . Insulin is produced by our body’s to regulate our blood sugar levels. In Greece the word diabetes means “to flow through” and in the Latin culture is means
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Running Head: DIABETES CASE MANAGEMENT PLAN Diabetes Case Management Plan: A Study on a Hospital-Based Program Diabetes Case Management Plan: A Study on a Hospital-Based Program Case management is a program‚ which has set guidelines for a patient’s specific care in a disease process. Case management’s goals are to provide high-risk patients with a continuum of care‚ improving the quality of life‚ and lowering costs for the patients for their specific disease. To reach these
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Q 1: Diabetes is the worldwide fastest increasing chronic disease. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have very high levels of diabetes. According to Australian Indigenous health info net (2016)‚ ATSI Australians have three times more likely to have diabetes compared to non-Indigenous Australians. Specifically‚ the number affect from diabetes in ATSI females are twice than non-Indigenous females. Diabetes can cause several serious health issues such as cardiovascular disease and
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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
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Talking to a teenager about Diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose‚ a sugar that is the body’s main source of fuel. Just as an iPod needs a battery‚ your body needs glucose to keep running. Here’s how it should work: 1.You eat. 2.Glucose from the food gets into your bloodstream. 3.Your pancreas makes a hormone called insulin. 4.Insulin helps the glucose get into the body’s cells. 5.Your body gets the energy it needs. The pancreas is a gland near your stomach
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Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which the individual has high blood glucose levels as a result of the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin‚ or as a result of the cells in the body not responding to the insulin produced. The aim of this documentation is to outline the normal regulation of blood glucose levels in the body which includes the role of the hormone producing alpha cells and beta cells in regulating these levels‚ and the effect that the pathophysiology of diabetes
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