Nursing in Diabetes: Use of Diabetic Phone App to Improve Compliance

Running head: NURSING IN DIABETES
NURSING IN DIABETES
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Assumption about the Hypothesis
In patient with type 2 diabetes, the use of an educational diabetic phone app obviously
improve the compliance with appointments, diet and medication regimens. Currently, more
than 3 lakh health apps are available in our digital market (Scheibe et al., 2015). Among them
most of the apps are based on the diabetic care diet and nutrition. These apps are also
concerned with the appointments and medication regimens. All the diabetic diet apps show
the healthy balanced diet for diabetic or pre-diabetic patients. The apps represent a weekly
routine chart of exercises and tips of eating for weight lose. Apart from that, the apps show
some salted caramel bloodies diabetic friendly recipe also delicious diabetes-friendly desert
recipes for diabetes. The most important is that most of the apps help to make understanding
a way to lose weight. A proper guidelines and lots of information for the management of
specific disorder makes an app very helpful to us (Blenner et al., 2016). Apart from that there
are a large number of diabetes test apps. Those are very useful because of having daily
reminders, that give a notification at each particular moment. The glucose diary contained by
this app, helps to track regular hemoglobin, glucose level, pressure, insulin and medications.
All the apps having facilities of manual backup and restore. Also, we can share our
data with our physicians. Hence, those apps provide targets of low and high blood sugar
levels, that a patient set on the app after discussing with the doctor. These apps help to
calculate the amount of sugar that an user will take per day. Also help to convert blood sugar
level from mg/dl to mmol/l (Scheibe et al., 2015). The apps that provide 24 hours diabetes
clinic, are the virtual platform through in which the diabetes patients remain under
supervision of a particular renowned specialist doctor and his/her medical team. The users
can submit their all kind of blood reports regarding diabetes on the app (Hale Capra & Bauer,
2015).