Health Assessment Nursing: Teaching Resource for Diabetic Patients

This study analyzes the purpose and implementation of the health assessment teaching resources for diabetic patients. It discusses the nutritional priorities, involved body systems, and health assessment skills required by medical professionals. The target audience and health promotion and disease prevention are also addressed.

Health Assessment Nursing
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Analysis......................................................................................................................................2
Learning objective of the teaching resource..........................................................................2
The purpose of teaching resources.........................................................................................2
Implementation of the teaching resource...............................................................................3
Nutritional priorities for diabetic patients..............................................................................3
Rationale of the assessment of the system.............................................................................4
Involved body systems in diabetes.............................................................................................5
Rationale of the Health assessment skills..............................................................................6
Target Audience.....................................................................................................................7
Health promotion and disease prevention addressed by teaching resource...........................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The health assessment teaching resource is one of the inevitable components required for
effective learning for the medical professionals. This resource acts as a guidelineto increase
the competency level of nurses in managing the complex and dynamic work in hospital
settings. This study will analyse the purpose and implementation of the health assessment
teaching resources to describe the body functional system. Subsequently, the health
assessment skills required by the medical professionals will be discussed focusing on the
target audience. Additionally, the process of addressing teaching resources health promotion
and disease prevention will be discussed. The conclusion will summarise the whole study..
Analysis
Learning objective of the teaching resource
 To provide perfect guideline for the nutrient uptake of the diabetic patient.
 To provide guideline for the holistic assessment of the physiological parameters of
diabetic patient.
 To discuss and enhance the skills required for the medical professional to perform the
health assessment in an appropriate manner.
The purpose of teaching resources
The purpose to develop the teaching resources is to provide nursing care professionals with a
guideline to enhance their qualities and competencies of the patients suffering from
diabetes.Around 13.2 % of the total population of Canada suffers from diabetes. It is more
prevalent in the older population compared to the younger population. Additionally, the
teaching resources comprise of the different health assessment techniques, charts of the
nutritional requirement and medicines used to assess and diagnose diabetic patients. Another
important purpose for developing the teaching resource is to provide guidelines for balanced
nutrient intake of the diabetic patient. Presently, the mortality rate of diabetes in Canada is 19
per 100,000 individuals. Effective reduction of this mortality rate is possible through health
assessment and diagnosis of the patient.
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Implementation of the teaching resource
The teaching resourcesinclude specific guideline to the medical professionals about the
priorities of nutrients, list of medicines required and knowledge about different assessment
test like fasting blood sugar test HBA1C test those should be conducted in a proper manner.
Moreover; it provides a guideline of specific medicines like insulinthat should be used to
mitigate diabetes (Kelleni, 2017). The nutritional requirement charts should be used for
capacity building. Besides that, guidelinesfor Blood glucose level HBA1C,urea,criatenine
must be provided in the teaching resources.
Nutritional priorities for diabetic patients
Carbohydrate, protein and fat are to be provided in a balanced amount to the diabetic patients.
The teaching resources comprise of guidelines that provide a clear view of nutritional uptakes
for diabetic patients (Koor, Nakhaie, Babaie&Ranjbaran, 2016). Priority should be given to
leafy vegetables and low glucose containing fruits that may provide the essential vitamin and
minerals to the bodies of the diabetic patients. On the other hand foods like meat, sweets
containing a high amount of calorie should be avoided. Eggs and legumes like pea should be
consumed for essential protein.
Fig: Balanced nutrient pyramid for Diabetic patient
Source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279012/
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Rationale of the assessment of the system
It is notable that diabetes is affecting the morbidity and mortality rate of the Canadians as per
the data gathered from 2015 to 2018 (Khan et al., 2016). It should be rational to perform
health assessment and prepare the teaching resource so that diabetes may be treated in an
effective manner. The health assessment must help to enhance the skills of the medical
professionals in a prominent manner.
Fig: Mortality rate due to diabetes in Canada
Source:www.statista.com
Involved body systems in diabetes
Diabetes has adverse effects on the different systems that include the cardiovascular system,
nervous system and the Urinary system of the human body (Hultquist, 2016). Massive blood
sugar reduces the elasticity of blood vessels thus reducing the blood flowing causing heart
attacks(Yanagawa, 2017). Diabetic patients may undergo nerve damage because of an
insufficient amount of the oxygen supply by the blood vessels to the nerve cells. High blood
glucose level affects the blood vessels of the kidney thus reducing the filtration
capacity(Yanagawa, 2017).
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Rationaleofthe Health assessment skills
The rationality of the teaching resources is essential to strengthen the health assessment and
enhance the service quality. Moreover, diabetes is mainly treated and assessed in the primary
care setting in Canada(Hasan Khan, Ullah, Khan, Shakeel&Qaiser, 2016). In the nursing care
settings, there are several programmes like diabetes management (McCardle, 2015),
education program and coordinated assessment care that help in delivering efficient care to
the patient. The health assessment skills required for the implementation of the teaching
resources for the health assessment of diabetes patients are as below:
Situational Analysis- Situational analysis is one of the essential skills needed by the nursing
care professionals to assess the condition of the patient in an appropriate manner. The
situational analysis is essential for the diabetes care professionals for the betterment of the
analytical and communication skill.
Technical Knowledge and capacity- Technical Knowledge and capacity is one of essential
skill needed for the implementation of efficient assessment and capacity building in the
diabetic patient. Besides that, the nursing care professional should have the basic knowledge,
skills to perform a blood test like fasting, post lunch, and HbA1c tests to assess the blood
sugar level in diabetic patients (Dassow & Zylstra, 2017). The HBA1C test(Hasan Khan,
Ullah, Khan, Shakeel&Qaiser, 2016) is one of the essential tests that determine the average
blood sugar level of six months in the diabetic patient.
Insulin projection
Additionally, insulin intake can also be prescribed for type1 and type2 diabetes. This is
helpful to control the blood sugar level (Backman, Vanderloo& Forster, 2016). Insulin is a
sophisticate medication for diabetes that can be prescribed to the patients after a holistic
assessment.
Communication and coordinated care-.Diabetic patient requires a multidisciplinary
approach for effective assessment and diagnosis. It involves a multidisciplinary team
consisting of a diabetologist, dietician, nephrologists(Nissenson& Maddux, 2017) and a nurse
who makes the primary tests and assessments. Coordination and communication among the
teams are the essential assessment skills(Nissenson& Maddux, 2017). Communication and
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coordination among the multidisciplinary departments are significant skills to assess the
patient.
Critical thinking abilities-Critical thinking abilities is another important skill that is required
to implement the teaching resources in an appropriate manner is the. A diabetic patient may
have multidisciplinary(Denton & Conron, 2016) problems. Effective diet has to be planned
by the dietician keeping in mind about. Attention should be given to details of the
physiological(Wray, 2013) parameters of the patient to reach an effective decision for the
holistic development of the patient.
Target Audience
It is essential to prepare the resources according to comprehensive levels of the target
audience. The main target audience for the health assessment(Elston, 2015) teaching resource
is the medical professionals in the community care and the health care services, the patient’s
family and the patients suffering from diabetes.It is essential to aware the patients with health
promotional strategies as the morbidity rate in Canada for diabetes is 13.2% (Nilson, 2016) .
Health promotion and disease preventionaddressed by teaching resource
The teaching resources help in the effective development of health promotion and disease
prevention. Health promotional activities may be strengthened by implementing the
guidelines provided in the teaching resources(Cowling, 2015). The knowledge of health
should be used in an effective manner to achieve diabetes treatment target. The disease
prevention(Tu et al., 2014) may be done by proper diet control that includes a high amount of
intake of dietary fibres. Regular exercise and self management is another important
component present as guideline in the teaching resource (Tu et al., 2014).
Conclusion
To conclude it may be stated that the above study analyzed the purpose of the development of
teaching resources. Moreover, the different skills required to implement health assessment of
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the diabetic patient are analyzed prominently in the study. Moreover, Implementation of the
teaching and body systems involved are analysed in a prominent manner. The target audience
is identified in the study in an effective manner. The relation between effective teaching
resources with health promotion and disease prevention is performed. The study implies that
the morbidity and mortality rate due to diabetes may be reduced in the country if proper
incorporation of the teaching resources is done in health assessment.
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