Innovation and Effective Care in Diabetes Management

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I have been a registered nurse for the past six years. I started my nursing career in a long-term care facility where I worked for a year and half . I always wanted to challenge myself so l left long-term care and went to work in the intensive care unit for four years where I saw how people with diabetes are suffering when the disease in not managed well. I am currently working in post anesthesia care unit(PACU) where I recover many patients with diabetes complications post-surgery. I am committed in the innovation in order to provide an effective care for the people suffering from diabetes. For many years the disease has been killing people and introduction of the control tools will help in making the condition manageable. The innovation …show more content…

It does not also provide the absolute time in which the positive outcome will be expected. It is important to work with deadline or allocated time. Lack of specific time is an indication that the tool is not effective. Another thing that makes the tool to be ineffective or unlikable is the aspect of not proposing age or people who will be helped by the innovation. It is important to put inconsideration age factor when dealing with patient. People in different age groups respond differently to medication. The tool could be more effective if it considered different approaches to deal with people from different ages (AHRQ, 2014). This innovation is similar to practices used in clinical settings that are similar with the same result. At my place of work diabetes patients who are admitted for uncontrolled diabetes their HgA1C are checked at admission. Upon discharge these individuals are schedule a follow up appointments with their primary care providers to get repeated HgA1C and blood sugar levels. If the patients labs are not within normal limits the primary care provider will then keep following up on patients HgA1C and blood sugars until it is better control. This practices is similar to the innovation of the diabetes

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