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Assignment -
Chapter 82-83 Diabetes Management and complications.
1. What are 3 chronic health conditions that diabetes may contribute to?
2. What are 3 things that put someone at risk for developing complication of diabetes?
3. If a patient takes insulin and forgets to eat, what are some symptoms of hypoglycemia that HE WILL FEEL?
What are some symptoms that OTHER PEOPLE WILL NOTICE?
If the diabetes medicine isn't working enough, what are some signs of hyperglycemia?
4. 3 ways to diagnose diabetes:
Fasting glucose way
Random glucose way
Glucose tolerance way
5. What's a target Hgb A1C for a diabetic?
6. What are 4 aspects of good foot care to teach a client?
7. How can they reduce the risk of injury to their poor feet?
i. Uh oh- cut my toe. How should I handle it?
8. How will additional fiber in the diet help with diabetes?
9. Since blood sugar goes up with infection, we need to teach "Sick Day Rules"
10. "You should call the MD if: (give 5 reasons)
11. What do you tell a client to do to manage hypoglycemia?
12. You are educating a diabetic patient who would like some information on things they can do to prevent complications of DM. Please give some concrete actions they can take to prevent: (remember these are things for the CLIENT to do, not you)
Cardiovascular disease
Blindness
Kidney failure
Foot ulcers
Instructions: Need 550 words.