Nursing Theory and Diabetes: An Analysis of App Compliance in Patients

This discussion post analyzes the hypothesis that educational diabetic phone apps improve compliance with appointments, diet, and medication regimens in patients with type 2 diabetes. The student supports this assumption using King's nursing theory of goal attainment, which emphasizes the importance of nurse-patient interaction and the patient's understanding of health behavior changes. The post discusses the features of various diabetes apps, including those related to diet, exercise, medication reminders, and blood glucose tracking. The student argues that nurses can use these apps to motivate patients and facilitate their understanding of their health conditions. The post also addresses the potential challenges, such as app availability in all regions, and the nurse's role in addressing patient concerns. The student concludes by emphasizing the potential of diabetic apps to remove time-consuming treatments from society.

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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).

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Nursing Theory to support the assumption
This assumption may be supported by King’ nursing theory of goal attainment.
According to this theory, the accurate interaction between nurse and patient may lead to
better understand the health behavior change. It helps to enhance the interaction by fostering
knowledge and beliefs, serving self regulation skills and abilities (Shanta & Connolly, 2013).
Therefore, proper transaction of matured sense between diabetic patient and nurse will lead to
achieve goal. However, the goal is not only using of those health apps regularly but also help
to learn the operating of those apps properly. The nurses should motivate their patient by
selecting the easiest handling apps, that a diabetic patient can easily determine their blood
glucose level, physical activity, diet and nutrition plan and weight ( Kenny & Corkin, 2013).
This nursing process give a faith of belief that we live in a digital background. Hence, the
time consuming treatment for diabetes can be removed from society by using these diabetic
apps.
This nursing theory assumes human beings as an open system, who interacting with
their environments constantly. Therefore, if the nurse describes the importance of recent
digital era to her patient properly and also communicate with her patient by those diabetic
apps, then the patient will be enough matured to understand the basic requirements of digital
apps. Sometimes, all diabetic apps are not available in all regions (Shanta & Connolly,
2013). Then chosen of particular app will face a serious problem for a patient, that the
patient will have been afraid of misguided by his/her nurse. Hence, to diverge this negative
thinking from a patient’s mind, the nurse should readily be available when ever required.

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