Download or read book What Nurses Know Diabetes written by Rita Girouard Mertig, MS, RNC, CNS, DE and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention: Foreword Book of the Year Health 2010 In the US, 23.6 million people-7.8 percent of the population-have diabetes. Diabetes can lead to serious complications, including blindness, kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, peripheral neuropathy and lower-limb amputations. People with diabetes can lower the occurrence of these and other diabetes complication by controlling blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids. What Nurses Know...Diabetes sheds new light on this disease from a trusted source: nurses. This book will provide down-to-earth information and explain clearly what a reader needs to know and wants to know to understand about diabetes so they can move forward with their lives. Special Features Include Numerous call-out boxes with "What Nurses Know " Definitions of Common Terms Resources, online tools, and specific websites to those living with diabetes About the Series Nurses hold a critical role in modern health care that goes beyond their day-to-day duties. They share more information with patients than any other provider group, and are alongside patients twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, offering understanding of complex health issues, holistic approaches to ailments, and advice for the patient that extends to the family. Nurses themselves are a powerful tool in the healing process. What Nurses Know gives down-to-earth information, addresses consumers as equal partners in their care, and explains clearly what readers need to know and wants to know to understand their condition and move forward with their lives.
Download or read book What Nurses Know Diabetes written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the US, 23.6 million people-7.8 percent of the population-have diabetes. Diabetes can lead to serious complications, including blindness, kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, peripheral neuropathy and lower-limb amputations. People with diabetes can lower the occurrence of these and other diabetes complication by controlling blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids. What Nurses Know ... Diabetes sheds new light on this disease from a trusted source: nurses. This book will provide down-to-earth information and explain clearly what a reader needs to know and wants to know to understand about diabetes so they can move forward with their lives. Special Features Include Numerous call-out boxes with "What Nurses Know Definitions of Common Terms Resources, online tools, and specific websites to those living with diabetes And much more! About the Series Nurses hold a critical role in modern health care that goes beyond their day-to-day duties. They share more information with patients than any other provider group, and are alongside patients twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week offering understanding of complex health issues, holistic approaches to ailments, and advice for the patient that extends to the family. Nurses themselves are a powerful tool in the healing process. The What Nurses Know series gives down-to-earth information, addresses consumers as equal partners in their care and explains clearly what a reader needs to know and wants to know to understand their condition and move forward with their lives. The What Nurses Know series is organized simply, with call out boxes for "What Nurses Know ..." special tips, fun facts and things that only a nurse would know. Personal stories are interspersed throughout, so the reader can easily relate to the books.
Download or read book ADA The Complete Nurse s Guide to Diabetes Second Edition written by Belinda Childs and published by American Diabetes Association. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What every nurse must know about diabetes Complete Nurse’s Guide to Diabetes Care is a comprehensive resource for all nurses who work with diabetes patients. Extensively revised, it offers expert advice on the fundamentals of diabetes care and related nursing issues.
Download or read book The Nurse s Guide to Teaching Diabetes Self Management written by Rita G. Mertig and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book Complete Nurse s Guide to Diabetes Care written by American Diabetes Association and published by American Diabetes Association. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated, Complete Nurse’s Guide to Diabetes Care, second edition, is the essential reference for nurses who work with diabetes patients. Get the latest details on the pertinent aspects of diabetes care and newest research, including diabetes complications, care and management approaches, and other diseases that affect the treatment of diabetes. This revised edition also features: A new chapter on patients with cancer and diabetesExtensive, updated resourcesUpdated treatment regimensThe latest in diabetes research Color photos and detailed tables in the guide provide excellent visual tools for nurses who want to provide the best diabetes care.
Download or read book Complete Nurse s Guide to Diabetes Care written by Belinda B Childs and published by American Diabetes Association. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of the Complete Nurse's Guide to Diabetes Care is a comprehensive resource for all nurses who work with diabetes patients. Inside, readers will find expert advice on: The evolution of the nurse's roles in diabetes care and education Recent research on complications and associated diseases Practical issues, such as the effects of anxiety, depression, and polypharmacy Updated guidelines for nutrition therapy and physical activity How diabetes affects women, children, and the elderly An extensive resources section featuring contact information for useful organizations and essential patient care The Complete Nurses Guide to Diabetes Care, 3rd Edition, gives nurses the tools they need to give quality care to the person with diabetes.
Download or read book Diabetes Head to Toe written by Rita R. Kalyani and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to understanding and managing your diabetes. Silver Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Awards (Health & Fitness) by the Independent Book Publishers Association; Winner of the Best Book Award (Health: Medical Reference) by the American Book Fest; Silver Winner of Book Award (Education) by the National Health Information Awards Diabetes Head to Toe is an invaluable resource for anyone living with diabetes. It includes everything you should know about the disease—straight from the experts. The authors, all doctors who specialize in diabetes care, offer simple explanations and essential advice on all things diabetes. Accessible and concise, Diabetes Head to Toe presents information at a glance, with conversational prose and easy-to-digest bullet points. Each chapter begins with a short introduction and includes helpful sections on "What You Need to Know" and "What Does It All Mean?" Other notable features include "Tips," "Myths and Facts," and frequently asked questions. In addition to defining medical concepts in everyday language while tackling core topics, such as patient dietary needs and lifestyle changes, this book contains unique coverage of • how to prevent and diagnose diabetes • the many complications—head to toe—that people with diabetes can develop • diabetes in diverse populations, including children and adults • new treatments for diabetes and how they work • common interactions between diabetes medications and other drugs • medical conditions that occur more frequently in people with diabetes, including eye disease, heart disease, kidney problems, depression, nerve damage, and sexual problems • cutting-edge diabetes technologies and the costs, benefits, and limitations of various devices • legal considerations that everyone with diabetes should keep in mind More than 50 illustrations illuminate key points, while a two-color format allows readers to quickly identify the information they are seeking. Aimed at people with diabetes, family members, teachers, physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, specialists, and anyone else who cares about the health of diabetes patients, this up-to-date book will help readers recognize the early warning signs before diabetes-related difficulties arise, ensuring a long, healthy life. Silver Winner of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Awards (Health & Fitness) of the Independent Book Publishers Association.
Download or read book Nurses Guide to Teaching Diabetes Self Management Second Edition written by Rita G. Mertig and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book Nurses Guide to Teaching Diabetes Self Management Second Edition written by Rita Girouard Mertig, MS, RNC, CNS, DE and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an optimistic and empowering approach to the daunting task of teaching diabetes patients to care for themselves. Written by a highly respected diabetes educator who has suffered with diabetes for 25 years, the guide provides the clinical and personal expertise that will help nurses and other health professionals to successfully teach diabetes self-management and compliance to adults, children, adolescents, and parents. The book contains a vast reservoir of information ranging from a thorough overview of diabetes and the physical and emotional toll of living with the disease to number of teaching and motivating strategies that health care professionals can use to create individualized approaches to teaching self-management skills. The guide provides up-to-date information on drug therapies, nutrition management, exercise, chronic complications, glycemic control, diabetes in children, adolescents, and adults, diabetes in adults with special needs or mental illness, and diabetes noncompliance. Addressing the most important and current topics necessary for successful self-regulation and maintenance of diabetes, this innovative desk reference provides a quick guide and instructional tool for nurses and other health professionals who interact with diabetics. This new edition provides: Clinical guidance and expertise to successfully teach diabetes self-management to adults, adolescents, and children The clinical expertise of a leading diabetes educator and the hard-earned personal wisdom of an author who has suffered with diabetes for 25 years A new chapter on chronic complications that describes a multitude of helpful new treatments A greatly expanded section on nutrition and exercise Thoroughly updated chapters A "must read" chapter on noncompliance, including why this occurs and how to prevent it
Download or read book Care of People with Diabetes written by Trisha Dunning and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease affecting a large percentageof the population world-wide. In the UK alone there are over 1.4million people diagnosed with diabetes, a new diagnosis of type 2diabetes is made every five minutes, and as many as a millionpeople are suspected to have the condition without knowing it. Asmany as one in ten patients in hospital have diabetes and diabetesaccounts for almost a tenth of NHS spending, largely due to thehigh costs of complications such as heart disease, blindness,kidney disease, stroke, and amputation which all require specialistnursing care. This manual is an essential guide to the care and management ofpeople with diabetes mellitus, aimed at nurses and healthcareprofessionals, and written by an experienced clinical nursespecialist with extensive knowledge of evidence-based diabetescare. This revised and updated second edition of Care of Peoplewith Diabetes serves as an essential companion to clinicalpractice with a particular emphasis on the acute care setting. Detailed information is included on the underlyingpathophysiology and types of diabetes, assessment and management ofdiabetes, formulating care plans, and patient instruction. Newchapters are included on sexual health, older people, andcomplementary therapies and the chapter on special circumstanceshas been substantially revised. Important new information is alsoincluded on corticosteroids, brittle diabetes, autonomicneuropathy, teeth, gums and haemochromatosis.
Download or read book Complete Nurse s Guide to Diabetes Care written by Belinda Childs and published by American Diabetes Association. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created specifically for registered nurses, this reference covers the entire spectrum of disease management wherever these caregivers encounter diabetes, including hospitals, clinics, and physicians' offices. This guide contains must-have diabetes information such as guidelines for the lifelong management of both acute and chronic complications associated with diabetes Includes a searchable, full-content CD-ROM.
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Diabetes Nursing written by Janet Sumner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of diabetes care compiles evidence, information and guidance on the area, and offers guidance on the complex patient-centred, physiological, psychological and psychosocial challenges nurses are faced with. It explains practical skills using a case study approach.
Download or read book Care in Healthcare written by Franziska Krause and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia care, midwifery, diabetes care, psychiatry, and reproductive medicine. Special attention is paid to ambivalences and tensions within both the concept of care and care practices. Contributions in the first section of the book explore phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches to care and reveal historical precursors to care ethics. Empirical case studies and reflections on care in institutionalised and standardised settings form the second section of the book. The concluding chapter, jointly written by many of the contributors, points at recurring challenges of understanding and practicing care that open up the field for further research and discussion. This collection will be of great value to scholars and practitioners of medicine, ethics, philosophy, social science and history.
Download or read book Care of People with Diabetes written by Trisha Dunning and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Care of People with Diabetes is an essential guide to the care and management of people with diabetes mellitus, with particular emphasis on the acute care setting. Written by an experienced clinical nurse specialist with extensive knowledge of evidence-based diabetes care, this fully updated fourth edition serves as an essential companion to clinical practice for nurses and healthcare professionals. People with diabetes experience a high symptom and self-care burden associated with managing their condition, and require appropriate support, advice and regular monitoring. Similarly, health professionals need to maintain and keep up-to-date with an ever-increasing body of knowledge in order to help people with diabetes incorporate new research into their self-care. Care of People with Diabetes provides an extensive overview of the knowledge base all health professionals require to work effectively with people with diabetes. Special features: Comprehensive clinical manual on an ever-more prevalent condition, written to meet the needs of nurses and healthcare professionals Includes new material on evaluating education programmes, cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, diabetes and sleep apnoea, and end-of-life care Provides key evidence for best practice Includes protocols for consistent care and improving patient outcomes
Download or read book Diabetes Mellitus written by and published by Spring House / Emd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, simple explanations bring clarity to this complex illness. Incredibly Easy! memory joggers and an eight-page, color guide to pathophysiology help nurses and other health professionals provide expert care. Contents include understanding diabetes mellitus, preventing diabetes mellitus, assessing patients with diabetes mellitus, treating patients with diabetes mellitus, diabetes mellitus complications, and teaching the patient with diabetes mellitus.
Download or read book Scope and Standards of Diabetes Nursing Practice written by American Association of Diabetes Educators and published by American Nurses Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diabetes is a chronic illness of epidemic proportion. Nursing practice in this specialty area emphasizes patient education and self-management in all settings. Standards of care and professional practice and their measurement criteria are included in this new text along with an essay on the specialty's status and trends
Download or read book Nursing Management of Diabetes Mellitus written by Diana W. Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fifth edition...the authors and their stellar cast of contributing authors bring us to the present state of the science and art in diabetes...including today's exciting research and a glimpse into the ever-evolving future." from the Foreword by Jane K. Kadohiro, DrPH, APRN, CDE President, American Association of Diabetes Educators This updated and revised fifth edition reflects the continuing progress in our understanding of diabetes and its care. Evidence of the importance of prevention measures, improvements in medication, early detection, and treatment of complications have evolved in the past few years, and this new edition addresses these changes. The book continues to provide nurses and other health professionals with the basics, including physiology, diagnosis, insulin and diet management, acute care, exercise, and life style issues. It includes complete guidelines on developing an education program, with a suggested course outline.
