Diabetes and Sexual Health
Rationale Nurses are often the person’s first point of contact. People with diabetes expect them to have some knowledge about the impact of diabetes on their sexual health. Sexuality is…
Diabetes in Older People
Key points An holistic proactive and integrated approach is needed to achieve effective diabetes management, manage age-, and diabetes-related health risks and ensure management strategies are appropriate for the individual….
Nursing Care in the Emergency and Outpatient Departments
Rationale Diabetes accounts for a great many presentations to outpatient clinics and emergency departments every year. In addition, people present to community centres and general practitioners with potential emergency situations,…
B: Diabetes Reference Material for Nursing Staff
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A: Associations Providing Services for People with Diabetes
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Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
Key points A supportive family is an important aspect of diabetes management. Family stress and marital disharmony affect the child’s metabolic control. Clinicians dealing with children with diabetes must spend…
Long-term implications for the baby of the hyperglycemic mother
BACKGROUND Once the care of the newborn is over and the ostensibly “healthy” baby of a mother with hyperglycemia during pregnancy is discharged to his/her devoted family, the long wait…
Rationale for treatment of hyperglycemia in pregnancy
BACKGROUND The adverse effects of hyperglycemia on the fetus have been recognized since women with diabetes first began to survive and reproduce. Very high rates of late pregnancy fetal loss,…
Obstetric management of labor, delivery, and the postnatal period
BACKGROUND Obstetric intervention in pregnant women with pregestational diabetes prior to spontaneous labor has been standard practice for decades. The objectives were, and still are, to avoid the fetus dying…
Care of the neonate
BACKGROUND The impact of pregestational diabetes and gestational diabetes upon the mother during pregnancy is covered in other chapters. Adverse consequences for the fetus and the neonate arise either from…
