Nursing: Diabetes and Hypertension

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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
diagnosed with the disease, other health issue catalyzed by the condition may arise. This call for
a close monitor of such people to ensure other health issues is kept at bay. The work of nurses is
therefore reduced as they can understand the disease they are managing. Diabetes can lead to
varying complications including blindness, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hypoglycemia,
kidney disease, cardiovascular disease or stroke (Lober, 2014). Most of these complications have
no cure. To reduce the incidences of occurrences of any of the complexities, nurses continuously

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manage diabetes conditions. It is worth noted that diabetes affects anyone at any age. Again,
some clinical trials are being carried out on diabetes to establish appropriate medication based on
drugs. By comparing and contrasting blood glucose levels in patients, the researchers can keep
track of metabolism and other organ functionalities (Zimmet et, al., 2014). This also assists in
drug formulation. Hence, diabetes as a clinical topic is important and relevant to nursing.
Personal Reflection
The 5Rs A brief description What’s going on here?
Reporting Survival of highest blood
glucose level of 147.6
mmol/L.
On 23 March 2008, Michael
Buonocore was admitted to
the Ponoco Emergency Room
in East Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania, USA
(WHO,2016). He had the
highest blood glucose level yet
survived.
Responding In my understanding, this
blood glucose level should
have led to a massive failure
of major organs of Michael.
How he survived still puzzles
me.
I think Michael is the first
human to have such high
blood glucose level.
Relating Under normal circumstance,
this blood glucose level is
Technically, such situations
can be handled by very few