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What is your role in diabetes education?
My role involves educating clients with diabetes on how their diabetes affects their feet and wound healing.
Monitoring their blood sugar levels, checking their blood sugar levels during their consult if they feel like they are having a hypo, and providing a oral glucose syrup to elevate the sugars if required. Providing clinical handover to the emergency department if my clients sugars do not begin to improve and/or they require further obs.
What do you want your role to be?
Within my role I want to be able to provide further education to clients about their diabetes and how they can manage their condition better to improve blood sugar levels.
I work alongside an Endocrinologist, I want to be able to assist him further with managing the clients diabetes by educating the client and being able to liaison with him about the clients care plan.
What are the challenges you face?
The general practitioner is only in clinic one day a week, if clients have urgent complications on other days, the dieticians are required to call the doctor and provide clinical handover. Therefore, I believe having a diabetes educator background will allow me to improve my discussion with the endocrinologist about the clients care requirements.
What are the opportunities you face?
I believe having a diabetes educator background will allow me to improve my discussion with the endocrinologist about the clients care requirements. Also when referring one of my clients to see the endocrinologist I will have a better understanding of what I need to educate the client about prior to seeing the doctor, such as when and how often to test their sugars, bringing along their last HbA1c results.
stage of life. In this case the body fails to produce any insulin at all and leaves the body unable to function appropriately. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes today. With type 2 diabetes the body’s blood sugar fluctuates and rises higher than normal levels at times, basically your body doesn’t produce and use insulin properly. Type 2 diabetes is usually diagnosed later on in life. Symptoms associated with diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination, increased appetite…
this alarming trend leads to many health related issues such as life threatening "Diabetes". Diabetes is a serious life-long illness caused by high level of glucose in the blood. This condition arises when the body cannot produce insulin from the pancreas or even secrete it but in an insufficient amount .Insulin is a hormone that moderates the blood level. Diabetes occurs in several forms but the major ones are Type I and II diabetes and gestational diabetes Type I diabetes is also known as “insulin-dependent…
Diabetes is diagnosed with the following blood tests: * Fasting blood glucose level -- diabetes is diagnosed if it is higher than 126 mg/dL two times * Random (nonfasting) blood glucose level -- you may have diabetes if it is higher than 200 mg/dL, and you have symptoms such as increased thirst, urination, and fatigue (this must be confirmed with a fasting test) * Oral glucose tolerance test -- diabetes is diagnosed if the glucose level is higher than 200 mg/dL after 2 hours *…
group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels that result from defects in insulin secretion, or its action, or both. Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes was first identified as a disease associated with "sweet urine," and excessive muscle loss in the ancient world. Elevated levels of blood glucose lead to spillage of glucose into the urine, hence the term sweet urine. Normally, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin, a hormone produced…
diabetes, type 1 diabetes; adult onset, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, type 2 diabetes; gestational diabetes; diabetes insipidus; unspecified diabetes mellitus; prediabetes; “sugar.” Definition: Diabetes mellitus is a syndrome in which the body cannot metabolize glucose (sugar) appropriately. The subsequent sustained elevated levels cause significant damage to the eyes, heart, kidneys, and other organs. Diabetes is a significant and growing public health problem; in 2014 the US Centers for Disease Control…
Level 2 care and management of Diabetes Q1. Explain what is meant by the term blood glucose. Blood glucose: The main sugar that the body makes from the food in the diet. Glucose is carried through the bloodstream to provide energy to all cells in the body. Cells cannot use glucose without the help of insulin. Glucose is a simple sugar. The body produces it from protein, fat and, in large parts of, carbohydrate. Ingested glucose is absorbed directly into the blood from the intestine and results…
Communication October 13, 2014 Type 2 Diabetes Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease. Diabetes mellitus is where the body cells cannot use sugar properly for absence of or resistance to the hormone insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Diabetes can lead to serious problems over time if left untreated. The high blood sugar levels from uncontrolled diabetes can cause serious long-term diabetic difficulties. Eventually, they damage the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas,…
the way your body makes or uses insulin. Insulin is needed to move blood sugar (glucose) into cells, where it is stored and later used for energy. When you have type 2 diabetes, your fat, liver, and muscle cells do not respond correctly to insulin. This is called insulin resistance. As a result, blood sugar does not get into these cells to be stored for energy. When sugar cannot enter cells, high levels of sugar build up in the blood. This is called hyperglycemia. . Increased fat makes it harder…
usually a lifelong (chronic) disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood. Causes Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar. Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin, resistance to insulin, or both. To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process by which food is broken down and used by the body for energy. Several things happen when food is digested: • A sugar called glucose enters the bloodstream. Glucose is a source…
Chotto Tulane Continuing Studies Mark Maneval May 1, 2013 Abstract Diabetes Mellitus (also known as Sugar diabetes) is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin; it is a hormone that is needed to change sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for everyday life. As a result, the body collects extra sugar in blood and discharges sugar in urine; Accumulated sugar in the body for too long results in damage to the vital organs of the body such as eyes, kidneys and…
