Living with Diabetes Flashcards
Diabetes in Canada %
29% currently living with diabetes or prediabetes.
Death attribuable to diabetes in Canada?
1 in 10
Qc prevalence compare to others provinces?
Had the lowest prevalence with Nunavut and Alberta.
The impact of Diabetes on the patient?
- Cardiovascular disease
- End-Stage Renal disease
- non-traumatic lower limb amputaitons
- Foot ulceration
- Depression (30%)
- Average cost for tx, medication, devices and supplies is around 1500$/year. (57% of patients cannot adhere to prescribed tx due to the high cost)
Diabetes Policy and Programs: Canadian Diabetes Charter principles is
- to ensure people are treated with dignity and respect
- To advocate for equitable access to high quality diabetes care and supports.
- Ehance the health and quality of life.
The Canadian Diabetes Charter outlines responsablities of:
-The governements
-The right and responsabiliies of people living with diabetes
-The right and responsabilities of Health Care Providers
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The backdrop of Diabetes nursing:
- Hospital (acute) diabetes Care (Disease-centered, tx focus, reactive, symptom driven managed care)
- Diabetes patient number increasing (older pop., co-morbidity and lifestyle issues, recruitment/retention issues)
- Efficient patient flow (time constraints, large workload)
- Complexities of management support (Increasing demand for services vs limited resources)
- DB specialized nursing staff and required knowledge/competencies and expetize
Goals of holistic Self Management Support for Diabetes Patients:
Inspiring patients to learn more about their condition and actively participate in their health care.
One of the biggest challenges for Diabetes nursing:
Ne evidence of true PARTNERSHIPS across the continuum of care due to the “Siloed” mentality of intra/interdisciplinary care teams.
Standards of Practice Diabetes Education:
- Based on ongoing patient-centred needs assessment
- Diabetes education are ongoing and centred around the patient, facilitates behaviour change, problem solving and active participation.
- Programs partner with services and utilize resources
- Effectiveness and quality education program regularly review.
Outcome Standards of Practice Diabetes Education for Patient:
- Understand to the best of their ability and the implications for healthy living
- Informed decisions and take action towards healthy living, in the context of spiritual and cultural valyes, socioeconomic needs and desired quality of life
- works with partners in our community and haad our communities aware of the support.
The 3 Elements of the Model of Self-Management Competence:
- 4 Domains of Self-Management Competence (Disease Awareness, Healthcare communication, Adherence attitudes and Tx and medication competence)
- Patient-Centered Communication
- Family-Centered Care
The 3 Elements of the Model of Self-Management Competence: the 4 domains are
- Disease Awareness
- Healthcare Communication
- Adherence Attitudes
- Tx and Medication Competence.
The Self-Management Approach to Chronic Conditions (Grady and Lucio Gough, 2014)
- The goal is: Maintenance of Wellness and management of illness across lifespan
- Include primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
- Nursing science at the forefront in deepening reseach, knowledge translation and clinical practice of self-management.
Self-management education is
-A systemic intervention that involves active patient participation in the self-monitoring and Decision-making