Introduction
The focus of this paper will be the role of nursing in health promotion and the education of patients with diabetes to reduce risks and improve individual health. Nurses are equipped to identify the risk factors, needs for disease management, recognize interventions, inform about proper nutrition, all with the primary goal to delay the effects of the disease process. The following paragraphs will outline and provide examples of the role of the nurse in promoting health and the management of the diabetes disease process.
The role of nurse in health promotion and disease management is very important. Originally the main strategies of the nurse are to provide education and changing the behavior of the patient related to their health.
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Research showing that the increase in age the higher the rate of diabetes type2, according to this article research in urban “In a selective urban sample, prevalence, rates of type 2 diabetes increased with age from 2.5% to 17.2% in men 35–75 years old.2 Similar tendencies are observed in most developed countries”( European Diabetes Nursing,2011). Older adult have some metabolic changes with diabetes type 2 that put them at higher risk for urinary incontinent, fall, cognitive issue and dementia.in addition elderly people with diabetes type 2 have high risk for admission to hospitals and nursing home. Elderly with diabetes type 2 has at least 5 or more medications that prescribed and patient may end up not taking the correct dosage of his medication either taking more or less, will increase the hospitalization rate. The role of nurse is crucial to improve the care for patient to provide better outcome. Education on diabetes in older adult is essential to provide teaching to reduce complication. Nurse will assess, monitor educated elderly on the proper use of insulin, medication, how to check blood sugar and diabetes foot care. They conducted researches from some of the nurses about the challenges that they faces with teaching the elderly about diabetes including “Misunderstandings about disease, treatments and poor health …show more content…
Diabetes neuropathy increase with the increase in age, clinical examination from the nurse and physical is crucial for early detection for better outcome. It is very important for the patient to be aware that the peripheral neuropathy is caused by the diabetes not other health issues. The most important symptoms that the nurse should be educating her patient including: pin and needles in feet, numbness, and unmanaged blood sugar. In addition nurses has an important role on teaching the patient on the principal of foot care, proper shoes, protect feet from heat and cold, makes sure patient has podiatric care, and report any skin breakdown to primary care physician or nurse in charge; Some of the complication that occur of unmanaged peripheral neuropathy including wound, and amputations (British Journal of Community Nursing, 2012). For better outcome prevention of disease progression is very important to better outcome, it discussed in depth in the next
Diabetes education is a structured education and self-management (at diagnosis and regularly reviewed and reinforced) to promote awareness. Diet and lifestyle, healthy diet, weight loss if the person is overweight, smoking cessation, regular physical exercise. Maximizing glucose control while minimizing adverse effects of treatment such as hypoglycemia. Reduction of other risk factors for complications of diabetes, including the early detection and management of hypertension, drug treatment to modify lipid levels and consideration of antiplatelet therapy with aspirin. Early intervention for complications of diabetes,, including cardiovascular disease, feet problems, eye problems, kidney problems and neuropathy.
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Diabetes is a disease that affects everyone. I too have been affected my father side of the family has diabetes in it. Diabetes has no cure and it is something you have to deal with for the rest of you life. With the support of nursing you can help patient become compliant with this diseases, which will help them less complication in life.
Specific purpose: To inform my audience about what diabetes is, what causes this condition and its health effects.
In recent years, diabetes education has become an integral part of diabetes treatment (Piccinino et al, 2015). The 2012 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) defines education as an exchange of knowledge, tools and practices that will address client needs. Patients need information about their illness, side effects, complications and how to care for it. Diabetes education must be effective and accurate in quality, content, and method (Atak & Arslan, 2005). Diabetes education should happen concurrently with diagnosis and throughout treatment for a patient and should involve a structured program.
The authors, researchers in Ottawa, Canada, compared two different diabetes education programs to determine whether participation in the programs improved patient diabetic outcomes. The main difference between the two programs involved length of sessions. The researchers concluded that shorter required amounts of class participation times resulted in better outcomes or were “equally effective”
The research will be used to update medical-surgical nurses on techniques and protocol for effective patient education in the management of type 2 diabetes. The impact on healthcare, in general, from this information increases the responsibility of the nurses for effective patient education and follow-ups. The greater in-depth patients are educated on the disease process, as well as, the combination of healthcare collaborations and patient self-management, the results can potentially decrease the amount of patients hospitalized each year due to elevated glucose level complications.(Nelson-Slemmer, 2014; Murtha, 2015) The financial burdens, both institutionally and patients individually, can be reduced by prevention education. Early interventions of the progression of Type 2 Diabetes, will also impact the financial affliction of long-term complications and comorbidities that can occur. (Murtha, 2015) Interprofessional education is beneficial and can provide the specialized education needed to successfully educate patients on managing type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Additional collaborations are helpful in providing, across the board, care management to the patients. Patients who keep a diabetes care journal, track and monitor glucose levels, document nutritional intake and medication regimen have higher success rate in managing their diabetes outcomes. (Nelson-Slemmer, 2014) Providing this information to all healthcare practitioners allows individualization and accurate adjustments for their plan of treatment. The changes being made can reduce patients’ anxiety and depression about the diagnosis due to lack of knowledge and understanding. Providing the information and resources available to help patient understand and cope with the diagnosis is important. The patient needs to be
When living with a long-term health condition it can for some people present them with many new challenges. Not only does it take time for them to adapt and accept their illness but also they may feel affected not just physically, but psychologically, culturally, and sometimes even personally such as financial or relationships with family and friends. In this essay, I will examine in turn the main challenges people with diabetes face.
Diabetes is a common disease, which can be a serious life-long illness caused by high level of glucose in the blood. This condition is when the body cannot produce insulin or lack of insulin production from the beta cells in the islet of Langerhans in the pancreas. Diabetes can cause other health problems over a period. Eye, kidneys, and nerves can get damaged and chances of stroke are always high. Because of the serious complication, the purposes of teaching plan for diabetes patient are to optimize blood glucose control, optimize quality of life, and prevent chronic and potentially life-threatening complications.
The model has an emphasis on health promotion and illness prevention. The five phases the nurse is collecting information. The chief complaint is the beginning of the trajectory. The patient has symptoms and seeks a health professional. The nurse collects information and gets the patient’s perception of illness. Goals are established with the patient. Problems to achieving goals are
...e health of all people. Nurses hold the sole responsibility to educate, identify, diagnose, treat and reduce morbidity and mortality rate and thus to reduce the health care costs and improve the economy . Health promoting agenda enables the whole nation and or the world to attain high-quality, longer lives, eliminate disparities and promote good health. Multiple approaches are essential to provide appropriate educations, assessments, implementations and evaluations to accomplish this mission.
Diabetic foot as the most common cause of hospitalization in diabetic patients is one of health system concerns. So that most of the time of diabetes healthcare providers is allocated to the prevention and diagnosis of diabetic foot complications. In this regard, nurses as members of the diabetes care team not only need to be play their role in health care, public education, health
Based on readings, reflect on the application of the health promotion model to present nursing practice.
Patient education is an important element of nursing practice and its purpose is to increase the competence and confidence of clients for self-management (Falvo, 2011). In order to educate the patient about a newly diagnosed condition, it is important for nurses to first construct an effective lesson plan. The scenario of Mr Singh`s newly diagnosed hypertension in part A is used as an example of a successful teaching plan. The purpose of the following essay is to explain and justify the content of the lesson plan. Each section of the plan will be discussed in order according to part A, with an effective use of scholarly literature.
Health education is about giving information and teaching individuals and communities how to achieve a good health, which is nursing common role. It raises individual awareness, and giving the health knowledge needed to decide on a specific health action. Health education helps to motivate individuals to accept a process of behavioral change by directing influencing their beliefs, values and attitude systems, while health promotion involves social, economic, and political change to make sure the environment is conducive to health. It is important that nurse should educate an individual based on his health need, but it is equally important for the nurse to play a role in trying to address the wider environmental and social