Evidence Based Practice On Diabetes Name of the Student Name of the University Author's Note

Running head: NURSING
Evidence Based Practice On Diabetes
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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NURSING
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Ask a question............................................................................................................................2
Information to answer question..................................................................................................3
Critical appraisal of the information..........................................................................................4
Implement in own practice.........................................................................................................5
Evaluate......................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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NURSING
Introduction
The Ministry of Health New Zealand (2014) suggested that among the highly
prevalent diseases, diabetes is a disease which needs urgent attention. The health ministry
suggested that though widely prevalent, certain ethnic groups like Maori, Pacific Islanders,
Asians residing there are at higher risk of attaining the disease. These ethnic population are
most likely 5times at higher risk to die out of diabetes than others. So, urgent attention must
be provided in relieving the condition, and strategies must be implemented for patient-based
approach for treating the disease effectively. In this assignment, an evidence-based approach
to deal with diabetes is discussed. The five main steps for evidence-based approach discussed
here are- 1. Asking a Question regarding the problem. 2. Information provided in an
approach to answer the question. 3. Critical Analysis and appraisal of the information is done
with prevalent literature support. 4. Implementation in own practice is delineated, with
proposed action plan. 5. Evaluation of the whole approach is done.
Ask a question
According to Ministry of Health New Zealand (2014), about 200,000 people are
diagnosed with diabetes, maximum of whom are having type 2 diabetes, and about 100,000
people have diabetes, but is not diagnosed yet. So, this area of medicine requires immediate
attention. Daly et al. (2018) reported that the number of diabetes specialist nurses have
decreased in New Zealand but the burden of the disease is increasing consequently.
Lawrence, Reynolds and Venn (2017) suggested that the prevalence of diabetes is to rapidly
be increased by the year 2035 to about 55% of the world population being affected by it. The
dietary habits of people largely influence the prevalence of diabetes. Gurney et al. (2018)
revealed that in New Zealand throughout the period of 2005-2016 about 13,562 amputations