University Report: Diabetes, Patient Assessment, and Nutrition

This report focuses on the assessment of diabetes patients, emphasizing the importance of nutritional factors and health promotion. The assessment process includes gathering patient history, assessing family history, and evaluating blood and cardiovascular systems. Urinalysis is also crucial, along with checking for complications like cataract formation and glaucoma. The report highlights learning objectives that connect physical examinations with disease prevention and health promotion, and suggests creating teaching resources for healthcare professionals. It also mentions the need for medical education for patients, and launching educational programs for dieticians and paramedics. Students are encouraged to interact with the teacher, and the use of analytical questions is recommended to enhance learning. References include the International Diabetes Federation and an article from Medscape discussing clinical presentations of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Nutritional factors of
diabetes and other disease

Assessment of the Patient
 In the assessment part of the diabetes patient, there are a few steps and they are-
 At first history of the patient should be collected and in that part, the health
professional will collect information about the food habit of the patient, family
history of diabetes.
 Knowledge about the disease and about the prevention of the disease.
 The food habit of the patient that can enhance the risk of the disease.
 About the smoking behavior of the patient.
 Has the patient received any treatment or not?
 Checking of blood pressure and urinalysis (Khadori, 2018).

Requirement for Assessment
 In the assessment of patient, the history of the patient is important as food habit, life
style is related to the onset of the disease.
 The family history is also required as sometimes it is observed that, the disease is
genetic.
 The assessment of the blood and cardiovascular system is so much important as the
blood glucose level is very high in this disease and to examine the severity of the
disease assessment of the blood glucose level is very crucial.
 Urinalysis is required to check any infection in the urinary tract of the patients.
 Sometimes, in diabetic patients eyes are also assessed to check cataract formation and
onset of glaucoma (Khadori, 2018).

Learning Objectives
 This assignment focuses to provide an opportunity to connect physical
examination and health assessment along with the concepts of disease
prevention and health promotion to the students.
 In addition, making of a teaching resource will help the health care
professionals in increasing awareness about the disease.

Creativity and Innovation
 Medical practitioner can continue medical education among the patients of
diabetes by using the teaching resource made by one of the health care
professional and this process can be continued in every week.
 Educational programs such as lectures on nutritional aspects of diabetes
can be launched for the dieticians and paramedics.
 The educational resources can be used to enhance the awareness among
the people who have diseases other than diabetes .
 The nutritional aspects of the various diseases should be more emphasized
while creating awareness among the patients who have such diseases
(International Diabetes Federation, 2019).

Learning Activity
 The students should be allowed to interact with the teacher after the
completion of lecture.
 Sometimes, after the completion of the session, teacher should tell the
students to give a brief on the contents discussed on that day.
 Teacher should ask questions to the students and those questions should
be analytical so that student can analyze his or her learning.

References
International Diabetes Federation (2019). Diabetic Association of India.
Idf.org. Available at: https://www.idf.org/our-network/regions-
members/south-east-asia/members/94-india.html?layout=details&mid=244
[Accessed 21 Jan. 2019].
Khadori, R. (2018). Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Clinical Presentation: History,
Physical Examination. Emedicine.medscape.com. Available at:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/117853-clinical#b1 [Accessed 21
Jan. 2019].