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Care of People with Diabetes A Manual of Nursing Practice.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Care of People with Diabetes: A Manual of Nursing Practice
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Diagnosing and Classifying Diabetes
- Key points
- What is diabetes mellitus?
- Prevalence of diabetes
- Classification of diabetes
- Overview of normal glucose homeostasis
- The metabolic syndrome
- Key features of the metabolic syndrome
- The metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents
- Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes
- Latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA)
- Type 2 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous children and adolescents
- Gestational diabetes
- Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- Diagnosing diabetes
- Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT
- Rationale for (OGIT)
- Preparing the patient for an (OGTT)
- Test protocol
- Screening for diabetes
- Preventing Type 2 diabetes
- Preventing Type 1 diabetes
- Managing diabetes mellitus
- Key points
- The diabetes team
- Aims of management
- Exercise/activity
- Exercise for the person in hospital
- Diabetes education
- Complications of diabetes
- Acute complications
- Long-term complications
- Aim and objectives of nursing care of people with diabetes
- Factors that complicate diabetes management during illness
- Aims and objectives of nursing care
- Aims
- Rationale
- Objectives
- Technology and diabetes management
- A sobering final comment
- References
- Further reading
- 2 Holistic Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, and Documentation
- Key points
- Rationale
- Holistic nursing
- Care models
- Characteristics of an holistic nursing history
- Nursing history
- Example Health Assessment Chart
- Instruments to measure health status
- Documenting and charting patient care
- Documenting in the health record
- Care plans
- Nursing notes
- Documenting metabolic status (`diabetic charts')
- Nursing responsibilities
- Documentation by people with diabetes
- References
- Further reading
- 3 Monitoring Diabetes Mellitus
- Key points
- Rationale
- Introduction
- Monitoring 1: Blood glucose
- Key points
- The role of blood glucose monitoring in the care of diabetes
- Factors that influence blood glucose levels
- Guidelines for the frequency of blood glucose monitoring
- Blood glucose meters
- Continuous glucose monitoring systems
- Continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS)
- Interpreting different results
- Reasons for inaccurate blood glucose results
- Monitoring blood ketones
- Blood glucose testing checklist
- Monitoring 2: Urine glucose
- Key points
- Indications for urine glucose tests
- Monitoring kidney function
- Methods of screening for microalbuminuria
- Several methods are available and include:
- Monitoring 3: Additional assessment
- Nursing responsibilities
- Blood glucose
- Glycosylated or glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c)
- Fructosamines
- Serum lipids
- C-peptide
- Islet cell antibodies