What Nurses Know - Diabetes - Softcover

Rita Girouard Mertig

 
9781932603989: What Nurses Know - Diabetes

Synopsis

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 Nurse Nurses Know - A" * Definitions of Common Terms * Resources, online tools, and specific websites to those living with diabetes * And much more!

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About the Author

Rita Girouard Mertig, MS, RNC, CNS, DE ,has taught nursing in a variety of programs and recently retired after 21 years from teaching in an associate degree nursing program in which she also taught nutrition. Rita also has had type 1 Diabetes for 25 years and has used an insulin pump for 15 years.

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