Education/Prevention
70 to 100 mg/dL
What is the normal blood glucose range at Lahey?
Type of diabetes that is triggered by genetic and environmental factors
What is Type I diabetes?
If someone presents with diaeresis, shakiness, mood changes and confusion.
What are symptoms of hypoglycemia?
Humalog
What is a rapid acting insulin?
The organ involved with Diabetes
What is the pancreas?
Secondary prevention goals for patients with diabetes.
Preventing neuropathy, nephropathy, & retinopathy
Magic age that makes an individual at risk for type 2 diabetes
What happens at age 45?
Importance of monitoring surgical sites and wound on diabetics
What is a high infection risk in diabetics with poor glycemic control?
Portable, convenient, efficient, accurate dosing, minimizes fear of using syringes
What is the advantages of insulin pens?
Continuously measures and displays BG; can set alarms for hypo- or hyperglycemia; can communicate with insulin pumps and smart phones
Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)
Three common cardiovascular health problems that diabetics are at increased risk for.
What are stroke, heart attack and high blood pressure?
A person is at greater risk for these cardiovascular complications if they have poor glycemic control
MI, Heart Failure, Hypertension
Lifestyle change that discourages the development of diabetic neuropathy
What is smoking cessation?
Insulin therapy provides continuous low-level secretion between meals and through the night
What is Basal insulin (e.g. Lantus)?
Name of the best diagnostic test for monitoring long-term glucose control
What is Hemoglobin A1C?
Stop Light handout & "Your Guide to Diabetes, A Nurses Teaching Guide" & insulin pen teaching kit.
What are Lahey tools for teaching your diabetes patient?
Weight; physical activityl; alcohol intake; and smoking cessation.
What are modifiable risk factors?
Condition with severe hyperglycemia, dehydration but no ketoacidosis.
What is Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome (HHS)?
Glucose tabs, Dextrose gel, Dextrose IV and Glucagon IM
What are Medication choices in the LHMC IP Hypoglycemia Protocol?
Form of high blood sugar affecting pregnant women
What is gestational diabetes?
Signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia; how to use an insulin pen; insulin dosing around meals; and how to use a glucometer.
What to teach your diabetic patient?
Three risk factors for Type II diabetes
What are (pick three): having prediabetes, being overweight, being 45 pr older, having a parent or sibling with type 2 diabetes, being physically active less than three times a week, have a history of gestational diabetes
A life threatening complication of diabetes where patient becomes acidotic.
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)?
$300-$400 without insurance
What is cost of a 10mL vial of Insulin?
Insulin is produced by these cells in this part of the pancreas
(2 part answer)
Beta cells in the Islets of Langerhans