Teaching Plan
Nursing teaching plan
Teaching plan: Patient with diabetes
Patient Maria G. is a thirty-two-year-old Latina female recently diagnosed with type II diabetes. She is the single mother of a young boy, Luis, who has been flagged as being pre-diabetic. The teaching plan for Maria G. will educate her about the potential consequences of diabetes and empower her with knowledge so she can improve her diet and exercise habits, with the hope of minimizing the need to rely upon insulin injections to manage her condition.
The objectives of the teaching plan are as follows:
The patient will be able to understand and describe her specific types of diabetes.
The patient will be able to name and describe the specific type or types of diabetes medications she has been prescribed, how to take them, and how she intends to fit the dosage into her lifestyle.
The patient will be able to perform proper self-monitoring of blood glucose using a blood glucose meter and will be able to inject herself with the appropriate dose of insulin.
4. The patient will be able to explain why diet modifications are necessary for diabetics and the benefits of healthy exercise. She will be able to describe how she will be able to integrate such modifications into her current lifestyle (Diehl 2010)
Maria G. has type II diabetes, which is developed later in life in most instances, although modern medicine is seeing earlier and earlier cases of diabetes. The fact that she is Latina makes her especially high-risk. With type II diabetes, "the body does not produce enough insulin for proper function, or the...
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