Type 1 DM
This type of diabetes results from autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
This condition occurs when body cells do not respond properly to insulin.
What is insulin resistance?
This condition refers to a cluster of metabolic risk factors that increase cardiovascular disease risk.
What is metabolic syndrome?
This daily self-monitoring practice helps patients understand how food, exercise, and stress affect glucose levels.
What is checking blood glucose regularly?
A patient with diabetes reports dizziness and sweating. The nurse should assess this first.
What is blood glucose?
Patients with this condition require lifelong administration of this hormone.
What is insulin?
The most common type of diabetes affecting adults.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
Central obesity is measured using this assessment.
What is waist circumference?
When planning meals, nurses often teach patients to balance carbohydrates using this common dietary method.
What is carbohydrate counting?
A patient with metabolic syndrome should receive teaching focused on these two lifestyle changes.
What are weight loss and increased physical activity?
This hormone increases during stress and illness and raises blood glucose levels.
What is cortisol?
This medication class is commonly first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
What is metformin?
Low levels of this “good cholesterol” are part of metabolic syndrome.
What is HDL?
This daily habit helps prevent skin breakdown and infection in patients with diabetes.
What is proper skin care and hygiene?
Drinking enough fluids throughout the day helps prevent this.
What is dehydration?
Three hallmark features of untreated Type 1 diabetes.
What are polyuria, polydipsia, and polyphagia?
This lifestyle intervention can significantly improve insulin sensitivity.
What is regular exercise/weight loss?
Name two additional criteria for metabolic syndrome besides obesity and low HDL.
What are hypertension, high triglycerides, elevated fasting glucose?
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Patients should keep a log of these three things to help providers adjust treatment plans.
What are blood glucose levels, diet, and activity?
Spacing meals evenly throughout the day helps prevent this glucose problem.
What are large blood glucose fluctuations?
This acute complication occurs when insulin is absent and ketones accumulate in the blood.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)?
This severe hyperglycemic emergency occurs without significant ketosis.
What is Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Syndrome (HHS)?
Metabolic syndrome significantly increases risk for these two diseases.
What are Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease?
When teaching nutrition, nurses encourage patients to limit foods high in this nutrient that rapidly raises blood glucose.
What are simple sugars?
A nurse teaches patients to avoid walking barefoot to reduce the risk of this.
What is foot injury?