UNCC300 - Type 2 Diabetes: Nursing Challenges and the Common Good

This essay addresses the increasing prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and the challenges faced by nurses in managing this condition. It highlights the significant rise in diabetes cases, attributing it to factors like unhealthy diets and the inability of nurses to provide effective healthcare and patient monitoring. The essay identifies specific challenges such as communication barriers between nurses and patients, difficulty in ensuring adherence to diet plans, and the broader impact of diabetes on public health, including links to cardiovascular disease and obesity. It suggests potential solutions, such as providing nurses with better education and training to improve patient motivation and adherence to treatment plans, emphasizing the importance of promoting healthy lifestyles through diet and exercise. The essay concludes by advocating for improved communication and comprehensive treatment programs to reduce the number of Type 2 diabetes patients and promote a healthier lifestyle.

Type 2 diabetes

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Increasing Number of Type 2 Diabetes Patients: Nursing
Challenges
Type 2 diabetes is defined as a health disease which affects the human body
system; it is a life-long disease that affects that way patient’s body handles glucose in
the blood. Mainly, it affects the body system of children, adults and it also increases the
issue of obesity. In last three years, the issue of Type 2 diabetes has increased by 46%
due to lack of healthy foods and diets, and many individuals are suffering from the type
2 diabetes (ACCORD Study Group, 2010). This number has grown due to incapability of
nurses to ensure that they provide effective healthcare to diabetes patients. Nurses face
many challenges while dealing with patients who are suffering from Type 2 diabetes
which makes it difficult to reduce to number of diabetes patients across the globe.
Type 2 diabetes is one of the serious health infections which are growing rapidly
which has created many challenges for nurses since they are not able to find the key
reasons that increase the rate of type 2 diabetes. A recent study observed that the rate
of type 2 diabetes has increased by 20% between the year 2014 and 2017 that time
around 2 million individual in the UK was diagnosed due to lack of healthy foods
(Inzucchi et al., 2012). This increment indicates that it is an alarming health issue that
cannot be handled easily and WHO observed that due to lack of knowledge or
experience nurses cannot able to communicate with a patient that increases the rate of
diabetes. A recent survey identified that the key challenge faced by nurses is that they
are not able to monitor the patients of diabetes which can also increase the rate of type
2 diabetes patients. In the year 2017, around 3 million people were suffered from this
disease which shows that it is global issue which is necessary to be addressed (Action to
Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Study Group, 2008). This type of issue occurs
when a person consumes unhealthy foods and does not follow proper exercise plan.
Nurses find it challenging to observe their patients to ensure that they follow a diet plan
which leads to uncertainty in the results.
According to the world health organization, many diabetes patients do not follow
the rules and regulation of nurses which is also a common challenge faced by the nurses
since there is lack of communication between the parties which is relevant to decrease
the rate of type 2 diabetes (Nathan et al., 2009). A recent study defined that diabetes is
considered as one of the important public health issues which affect the human body

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system and it also increases many other health issues, for example, cardiovascular
disease, obesity, overweight and many more. All these diseases are linked together
which are also increasing as the number of diabetes patient increase across the globe.
Such kind of challenges can be resolved by adopting and developing a more
effective approach for diabetes patient, for example, medical professional teams can
provide appropriate education and training facilities to their nurses (ADVANCE
Collaborative Group, 2008). This will allow them to easily handle and motivate their
patient which will allow them to ensure that patient follow their guidelines and diets
plan that can improve their health (Saxena et al., 2007). They can make a plan for the
patient to control and manage their health-related issues and they can motivate them to
use only healthy foods, exercise plan and physical activities (Holman, Paul, Bethel,
Matthews, & Neil, 2008). Therefore, the rate of Type 2 diabetes can be reduced by doing
physical activities, and it is observed that many adults eat fast foods anytime which
increase the issue of diabetes and obesity.
Type 2 diabetes is a very common health issue which occurs in the human body
system due to a lack of healthy foods. It shows how an unhealthy lifestyle resulted in
adversely affecting the health of individuals, and it also increases the chances of other
diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, overweight and many more. On the
other hand, it is also challenging for nurses to ensure that they are able to provide
effective healthcare facilities for diabetic patients to help them address their problem.
Nurses should communicate with their patient on a regular basis, and they can provide
a platform where the patient can understand their situation in a more effective manner.
They can promote healthy foods, exercise, and physical activities to reduce the
percentage of type 2 diabetes and ensure that they follow the proper treatment
program or plan. These will assist nurses in providing effective healthcare facilities
which will benefit the patients in living a healthy lifestyle and reducing the number of
Type 2 diabetes patients.

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