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Signs & Symptoms
What type am I?
Complications
Insulins
Nursing Interventions
100
Clammy skin, palpitations, shaky/tremors are symptoms related to stimulation of what nervous system?
What is the autonomic nervous system?
100
This type of diabetes results from pancreatic beta cells that do not produce insulin
What is Type I diabetes?
100
This characteristic respiratory pattern is indicative of DKA (Diabetic ketoacidosis)
What is Kussmaul respirations?
100
The patient on TPN will receive this type of insulin for supplemental coverage
What is Regular insulin?
100
At 11:30, you notice the following symptoms in your patient: diaphoretic, irritable, tachycardic. The appropriate initial nursing action is...
What is check finger stick blood glucose?
200
Irritability, Vision changes, Confusion, Seizures are a result of lack or glucose to which organ
What is the brain?
200
Typically diagnosed in the adult years, this type of diabetes leads to insulin resistance
What is Type II diabetes?
200
This complication is most likely caused by too much insulin or too little food intake
What is hypoglycemia?
200
This type of insulin is administered as a basal metabolic dose
What is Lantus?
200

Your patient's FSBG is 60 at 0730. This is the appropriate nursing intervention.

What is give 15 grams of a simple carbohydrate orally?

300
The classic "3 P's" associated with elevated blood glucose levels
What are polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia?
300
This type of diabetes was historically known as juvenile diabetes
What is Type I diabetes
300
Macrovascular complications related to diabetes results in diseases of this body system
What is the cardiovascular system?
300
This type of insulin is the only type administered by an insulin pump
What is Humalog or rapid acting insulin?
300
This is the "nickname" given to the nursing intervention protocol used to treat the hypoglycemic patient
What is the "Rule of 15"?
400
The patient that states, "I feel sweaty, my heart is beating fast and I am really shaky!" is suffering from...
What is hypoglycemia?
400
This type of diabetes responds to oral hypoglycemic agents
What is Type II diabetes?
400
This excretory organ is most affected by microvascular complications of diabetes
What are the kidneys?
400
This combination insulin therapy only requires two insulin injections per day
What is NPH and regular insulin?
400

A patient was given an injection of insulin and there was a large pool of insulin at the injection site. the appropriate thing for the nurse to do is...

Monitor the patient's blood glucose closely for hyperglycemia

500
Numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes is a sign of this diabetic complication?
What is peripheral neuropathy?
500
This type of diabetes always requires treatment with exogenous insulin
What is Type I diabetes?
500
These acute complication is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia with the absence of ketone production
What is HHS (hyperosmolar hyperglycemic syndrome)?
500
These two insulins are used in combination to provide basal metabolic needs and nutritional boluses
What is Lantus and Humalog?
500
This nursing responsibility applies anytime you treat a patient for hypoglycemia per hospital protocol
What is notifying the doctor?