Importance of Diabetes as a Clinical Topic in Nursing

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Introduction
Nursing as a profession has many clinical topics that are important and relevant to any
nurse. This discussion, therefore, is majored on diabetes as a clinical topic. The easy provides
background information to diabetes, importance, and relevance of diabetes as a clinical topic and
finally, why the topic is essential to me. (REMOVE THIS PART AS DON’T NEED OF
INTRODUCTION)
Background
Increase in blood sugar level in the body results in a disease known as diabetes (Diabetes,
2014). The body requires blood glucose to generate energy. It is the function of insulin to help
the body utilize glucose. When the body (mainly pancreas) fails to produce insulin or produces it
in meager amounts, control of blood glucose level is impaired, leading to diabetes. Diabetes has
no confirmed cure but can be managed. There are mainly two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2
(Egan, & Dinneen, 2014). Type one result when the body fails to make insulin and blood glucose
level cannot be regulated.
On the other hand, type 2 occurs when the body makes insulin but does not utilize it well.
Besides, there is gestational diabetes which is common in some pregnant women. Again, some
less common types of diabetes include monogenic diabetes, which results from the single genetic
change, and cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.
Importance to Nursing
Taking into account the number of people diabetes effects, it is essential to establish
better management strategy for the disease. By continuously doing more research on this clinical
topic, the nurses can equip themselves with more information about the disease. When one is