Dorothea E Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory The discipline of nursing uses theory in a variety of health care settings to determine the quality of patients would receive to achieve a desired outcome. In this research paper, I will seek to present significant information about Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory and its Application to nursing. ...
I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes when I was seven years old and ever since that time I have fought the ups and downs of a very brittle lifestyle. My physician tried several different options as I was growing up but as I got older and more independent the diabetes got even worse because ...
The Ascensia Breeze Diabetes Meter, made by Bayer, incorporates a new feature that is its ‘claim to frame’. Instead of individual test strips, it utilizes a ten test “autodisc” that is inserted once and carried internally in the meter. This allows for ten consecutive blood glucose measurements before there is a need to insert another ...
Last year we received a phone call from Len’s G.P. to head over to his pharmacy to pick up new blood glucose test strips. We asked “Why” as it had only been a few months prior that Medicare gave him the Accu-Chek Aviva Blood glucose monitoring system. We were told that his H.M.O. wanted him ...
Many know that insurance takes care of insulin, test strips, and glucose meters. But what if you don’t have insurance? Those without insurance that have diabetes need to find other alternatives to getting their supplies as cheaply as possible. And with the cost of test strips hitting unbelievable highs lately, a free glucose meter takes ...
According to the American Diabetes Association, 23.6 million people in the United States have one form or another of diabetes, with another 57 million having pre-diabetes. Heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney disease, neuropathy, and amputation all go along with uncontrolled diabetes. Complications relating from these conditions led to diabetes being the seventh ...
When she was a young woman of 19, she found out she had diabetes. She was devastated and found she did not really know what the disease was or how it would affect her life. She was sure the disease would limit her dreams or maybe even make everything obtaining everything she wanted in life ...
My son was diagnosed with Diabetes Type I when he was three years old. We struggled with his blood sugar levels for years until one of his physician’s about two years ago suggested he be put on an insulin pump to try to improve his control levels. His physician gave us a couple of suggestions ...
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Some of today’s newer glucose monitors for diabetics make keeping your sugar under control simple for you and your doctor. The One Touch Ultrasmart is one of these new styles of glucose monitors, with features such as the ability to program it with your prescriptions (both pills and insulin), dosages, and the times of those ...