Teaching Plan to Manage Type 2 Diabetes

Patient Teaching Plan
Isabel Gutierrez
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR305 Health Assessment
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Patient Teaching Plan
“I do not know why it had to be him. He was my everything! I hate Diabetes, I hate doctors that could not save him! I hate everything!” are some of the words that she said as she dashed out of the restaurant without paying her bills. She had just received a message that her husband was no more. I did not know the woman, but her statement made me curious. We do not always have to blame doctors when death claims a loved one. Most families are losing their loved ones to diabetes because they do not understand that this disease is manageable and preventable. I decided to research on diabetes as because I also want to understand this disease. According to World Health Organization (n.d.), most people are at risk of this disease because of their sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes type 2 has reached an epidemic level and there is a need for people to learn how to prevent and manage this disease. I developed an interest in this disease when I was taking the health history of client. After reading in Jarvis (2016) that diabetes type 2 is one of the risk factors of HTN, I decided to explore it so that I can help people understand it. The purpose of this teaching plan is to help people with diabetes type 2 take advantage of modifiable risk factor of sedentary lifestyle to manage and prevent this disease.
Preventable Disease Overview
The preventable disease under study is diabetes type 2. The World Health Organization (n.d.) defines diabetes as a chronic condition that occurs when the body fails to produce any/enough/becomes resistant to production of insulin leading to an increase in the level of glucose in blood. The problem with too much glucose level in blood is that it leads to the damage of blood vessels, causing serious health conditions. This leads to other serious conditions such as stroke, kidney failure, blindness, amputations, and high blood pressure. The World Health Organization (n.d.) recommends three main methods of diagnosing diabetes type 2. The three methods are fasting blood glucose (FBG) where the level of glucose in a person is tasted after the individual has fasted for at least eight hours. This test is preferably done in the morning and people with a glucose level of 100 to 125 mg/dl are diagnosed with prediabetes (World Health Organization, n.d.). My client has diabetes because of the higher disposition he has in his family history. According to Jarvis (2016), people are to seek screening when they realize that they are at a higher disposition of diabetes. The family history data I collected helped me conclude that the client is at a higher risk of this disease.
Evidence Based Intervention
According to Naik et al. (2015), physical exercise has been argued to be the best evidence-based intervention in the prevention and management of diabetes. Physical exercises includes all activities that a person can engage in to increase burning of glucose in the body. They may include walking, cycling, jogging, and swimming increase the rate at which stored glucose Is burned to produce energy. Additionally, physical exercises can be planned or regular. Since the client is young ...