Sugar Sleuths
A Blood sugar greater than 140mg/dl is considered what?
What is hyperglycemia
This autoimmune disease results from beta cell destruction in the pancreas. Insulin is required for peopel with this disease
What is Type 1 diabetes
A patient calls you in the room complaining of many of these symptoms such as - hungry, fast heartbeat, sweaty, dizzy, weak, blurry vision, shaky, headache. What might they be symptomatic of?
What is hypoglycemia
This first line oral medication does not usually cause hypoglycemia but may cause GI upset. It is also usually held when a patient is admitted
What is metformin?
If a correction dose of insulin is needed, it should be given within how many minutes of the last POC glucose reading
What is 60 minutes
At Admission this test is obtained for a pt with diabetes or hypoglycemia if no reslut is available from the past 3 months
What is an A1C
This insulin provides background coverage overnight and between meals
What is basal insulin
These types of food make your blood sugar go up fast and high
What are carbohydrate foods
* Starches: breads, crackers, cereal, pasta rice, potatoes. corn, peas, etc.
* Fruit, juice, milk, yogurt, ice cream, cake, cookies, honey, syrup regular soda
This medication should be held if the patient is NPO
Bolus or mealtime insulin
This nursing intervention is required for all serum labs glucoses less than this
What is less than 70mg/dl
This A1C range of 5.7%- 6.4% is identified this diagnosis
What is prediabetes
Before stopping an ICV insulin infusion, basal insulin should generally be given this many hours beforehand
What is 2 hours
This order set should be initiated for a diabetic patient
What is the hypoglycemic order set
This type of method provides continuous insulin infusion subcutaneously and bolus insulin on demand for food and/or correcting a high blood sugar
What is an insulin pump
Continuous glucose monitoring sensors measure this is the body
What is interstitial fluid
For noncritical hospitalized adults, this is the inpatient standard of care glucose target range
What is 100-180mg/dl
This insulin should STILL be given if the patient is NPO but may need to be reduced
What is basal insulin
After a treatment is given to a patient for a hypoglycemic event, this statement should be documented OR treatment should continue every 15 minutes
What is "hypoglycemia resolved" documented in epic
This medication is given to fix a high blood sugar. It is NOT for the food. It should still be given if the patient is NPO and can be given with the mealtime insulin
What is correction insulin also known as Sliding scale
A continuous glucose monitoring contract for a patient can be found in this place
What is policy tech
This metabolic crisis may occur when a patient with type 1 diabetes misses basal insulin
What is diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA
This insulin known as "Humalog or regular" should be given with regards to how much the patient plans to eat.
Bolus or mealtime insulin
These types of food make your boold sugar go up slow
What are protein foods
* Meats, eggs cheese, peanut butter, tofu, nuts, paneer
These four resources are available to help patients learn about diabetes management during their hospital stay
What are diabetes educational booklets, diabetes videos on mychart bedside, clinical nutrition consults, and diabetes educator consults
An infusion site for an infusion pump may need to be changed if a patient has these symptoms
What are: the site is red, swollen or warm to touch
site is tender, itchy, or discharge/pain at the cite
There is a lump or nodule at the site
there are delivery alarm alerts
The pt has 2 consectutive blood glucose readings
> 250 &/or mod to large ketones