The Nurse's Guide To Teaching Diabetes Self-Management: What Nurses Need to Know - Softcover

Mertig, Rita Girouard

 
9780826102256: The Nurse's Guide To Teaching Diabetes Self-Management: What Nurses Need to Know
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0826102255 ISBN 13: 9780826102256
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

As the population of diabetes patients continues to grow, nurses and care-givers must keep up with the daunting task of teaching patients to care for themselves. In this groundbreaking new guide, Rita Girouard Mertig provides the clinical guidance and expertise nurses need to successfully teach diabetes self-management and compliance to adults, children, and parents. Ranging from the basics of diabetes to providing the most up-to-date information on drug therapies, everything you need to effectively instruct patients and help them gain control of their diabetes therapy is here. Topics covered include: Nutrition management Exercise Medications Glycemic Control Continuous Glucose Monitor Children with Diabetes and Their Parents Adolescents with Diabetes Diabetes in Adults with Special Needs Diabetes and Mental Illness Client Noncompliance Addressing the most important and current topics necessary for successful self-regulation and maintenance of diabetes, this new innovative desk reference provides a quick guide and instructional tool for nurses and caregivers everywhere.

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As the population of diabetes patients continues to grow, nurses and care-givers must keep up with the daunting task of teaching patients to care for themselves.

In this groundbreaking new guide, Rita Girouard Mertig provides the clinical guidance and expertise nurses need to successfully teach diabetes self-management and compliance to adults, children, and parents.

Ranging from the basics of diabetes to providing the most up-to-date information on drug therapies, everything you need to effectively instruct patients and help them gain control of their diabetes therapy is here. Topics covered include:

  • Nutrition management
  • Exercise
  • Medications
  • Glycemic Control
  • Continuous Glucose Monitor
  • Children with Diabetes and Their Parents
  • Adolescents with Diabetes
  • Diabetes in Adults with Special Needs
  • Diabetes and Mental Illness
  • Client Noncompliance

Addressing the most important and current topics necessary for successful self-regulation and maintenance of diabetes, this new innovative desk reference provides a quick guide and instructional tool for nurses and caregivers everywhere.

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Publisher
Springer Publishing Company
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0826102255
ISBN 13 
9780826102256
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
184