DIABETIC TERMS
This hormone is in short supply for people with diabetes.
The Diabetes Prevention Program Research group found that this type of diabetes can be prevented through lifestyle changes.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
A random blood sugar (aka known as casual plasma glucose) > this level is a symptom of diabetes
What is 200 mg/dL?
Diabetes can lead to many severe long term complications. Name one.
What is cardiovascular damage, nerve damage, renal failure, and blindness?
This is the concentration of insulin used most in the United States.
What is U-100?
Damage to this organ can cause the development of diabetes.
What is the pancreas?
This intervention is key to helping people understand the importance of maintaining normal blood glucose levels.
What is diabetes education?
A hemoglobin A1C (aka glycosylated hemoglobin, A1C) greater than or equal to this level is a criteria for diagnosis of diabetes.
What is 6.5%?
This type of complication includes hypoglycemia, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS), and ketoacidosis (DKA).
What are short term complications?
Though you may see this happen, it is no longer considered best practice to administer two insulins in this manner.
What is mixing two insulins in one syringe?
What is type 2 diabetes?
This is the amount of physical activity per day that is recommended for diabetes prevention.
What is 30 minutes?
Increasing the amount of this in your diet may improve glucose levels, decrease the need for exogenous insulin, and lower total cholesterol.
What is fiber?
This is the single most important factor in prevention of long term complications from diabetes.
What is normal/near normal blood glucose levels?
These are three different ways of delivering routine (at home) insulin.
What are traditional Sub-Q injections, insulin pens, and insulin pumps?
This term means a person's blood glucose level is higher than normal.
What is hyperglycemia?
This preventive step has the following goals: blood glucose levels in normal, or near normal range, lipid profile that reduces risk for vascular disease, normal blood pressure, and the prevention/delay of chronic complications.
What is nutritional management of diabetes?
*Individual needs and cultural considerations must be part of nutritional intervention.
This nutrient has the biggest effect on blood glucose levels because they are digested more quickly and convert to glucose rapidly.
What are carbohydrates?
This short term complication is particularly concerning in older adults because their decreased renal function causes oral hypoglycemics to stay in their system longer, decreased visual acuity makes drawing accurate insulin doses more difficult, and financial limitations/decreased appetite may lead to skipping of meals.
What is hypoglycemia?
The RN should ensure that the patient has food available before giving this insulin.
What is rapid acting insulin?
This is another name for Type 1 Diabetes.
What is insulin dependent diabetes?
In addition to recommending lifestyle changes, this oral anti-diabetic medication is given to people at high risk for Type 2 diabetes
What is metformin
According to your textbook, this test is most effective for diagnosing diabetes in older people due to their higher renal threshold for glucose.
What is a glucose tolerance test?
High blood glucose levels decrease the amount of this chemical in the blood which helps blood vessels dilate for optimum blood flow.
What is nitric oxide (NO)
The meal that each type of insulin (rapid/short, intermediate, and long activing) is meant to cover.
What are the next meal, subsequent meals, and acts as a basal level?