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As the population of diabetes patients continues to grow, nurses and care-givers must keep up with the daunting task of teaching patients to care for themselves.
In this groundbreaking new guide, Rita Girouard Mertig provides the clinical guidance and expertise nurses need to successfully teach diabetes self-management and compliance to adults, children, and parents.
Ranging from the basics of diabetes to providing the most up-to-date information on drug therapies, everything you need to effectively instruct patients and help them gain control of their diabetes therapy is here. Topics covered include:
Nutrition management
Exercise
Medications
Glycemic Control
Continuous Glucose Monitor
Children with Diabetes and Their Parents
Adolescents with Diabetes
Diabetes in Adults with Special Needs
Diabetes and Mental Illness
Client Noncompliance
Addressing the most important and current topics necessary for successful self-regulation and maintenance of diabetes, this new innovative desk reference provides a quick guide and instructional tool for nurses and caregivers everywhere.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Diabetes Conundrum
Diabetes: The Basics
How Insulin Works
Classifications of Diabetes
Diagnostic Criteria
Treatment: Medical Nutrition Therapy
Nutrition
Weight Loss
Old Food Pyramid Versus 2005 Dietary Guidelines
Carb Counting
Alcohol: Pros and Cons
Sick-Day Management
Treatment: Physical Activity
Benefits of Exercise
Potential Problems with Exercise
Treatment: Medication
Oral Antidiabetic Medications
Injectable Antidiabetic Medication
Inhaled Insulin
Glycemic Control
Hyperglycemia
Factors that raise blood sugar
Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia Unawareness
Blood Glucose Monitoring
A Cure Is Near
Research in the Prevention and Cure of Type 1 Diabetes
Research in the Prevention and Cure of Type 2 Diabetes
How a New Drug or Product Gets Approved
Part II. Diabetes Self-Management
The Nurse as Teacher
What do Clients with Diabetes Need to Know?
Assessment Guidelines
Goals of Client Education
Nursing Interventions Using Learning Principles
Evaluating Teaching
Children with Diabetes and Their Parents, Kearsten Mauney
What is it Like to Have a Child with Diabetes?
Ages and Stages
Adolescents with Diabetes, Bev Baliko
Balancing Parental Involvement
Nonadherence in Adolescents with Diabetes
Diabetes in Adults with Special Needs
Diabetes and Pregnancy
Diabetes in the Elderly
Diabetes and Mental Illness, Bev Baliko
Diabetes and Depression
Diabetes and Chronic, Severe Mental Illnesses
Teaching and Motivating Clients with Mental Illnesses
Client Noncompliance
Definitions
Financial Considerations
Physical Limitations
Deficient Knowledge
Literacy
Culture
Religious Constraints
Support System
Denial
Anger
Depression
Fatalism
Self-Determination
