Discharge Planning
On day of discharge (1) Ensure patient has necessary medications and supplies, insulin delivery device, blood glucose testing equipment, fingerprick device and diabetic record book and understands their use, and…
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Hypoglycaemia
Key points Hypoglycaemia is one of the most common short-term complications of diabetes treatment with insulin and some oral glucose lowering medicines. The brain depends on a constant supply of…
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….
Community, Practice Nursing, and Home-Based Care
Key points Practice nurses are playing an increasingly important role in diabetes care. Well established collaboration and referral procedures among health services and health service providers is essential. Community, practice…
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 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…
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,…
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…
