DOR Report_2010 - Diabetes Outreach
DOR Report_2010 - Diabetes Outreach
DOR Report_2010 - Diabetes Outreach
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Attachment H<br />
Regional Education Series - Health Professional Feedback<br />
Planned practice changes<br />
What did you learn that will assist you when caring for people with diabetes?<br />
> BGL monitoring.<br />
> Hypo management.<br />
> Medication management.<br />
> There are also lots of contribution factors and things to watch out for.<br />
> The correct times of doing BGL’s.<br />
> Medications and their effects.<br />
> Assessing diabetes on and for emergency care.<br />
> The importance of a care plan.<br />
> Different medications/side effects.<br />
> People should have management plans.<br />
> Having a good underpinning knowledge enhances patient care.<br />
> Physiology of anatomy for diabetes.<br />
> Times of glucose monitoring. Before meals most important. Needs to be individualised,<br />
dependent on age (not just chronological age), medication, glucose levels.<br />
> Different ways of explaining ‘medical’ terminology.<br />
> Value in pre meal BGL as to post meal BGLs.<br />
> Have a much clearer picture now on ketones in T1 & T2 diabetes.<br />
> Management of ‘older’ person.<br />
<strong>Diabetes</strong> <strong>Outreach</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
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