What nurses know--diabetes /
Mertig, Rita G,
What nurses know--diabetes / Diabetes Rita Girouard Mertig. - 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages) - What nurses know-- . - What nurses know-- .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Diabetes: what is it? -- 2. What can I eat? -- 3. Why should I exercise? -- 4. How do medications help? -- 5. Glucose monitoring: what do I do with the results? -- 6. How can I prevent complications? -- 7. Diabetes and pregnancy -- 8. Emotions and diabetes -- 9. How can I get the help I need? -- 10. How can family and friends help? -- 11. Staying motivated -- Glossary -- Resources -- References -- Index.
"Over 23 million American live with diabetes, and many will experience serious complications like blindness, kidney damage, and cardiovascular disease. Knowing how to control blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids is essential. What Nurses Know-- Diabetes offers timely advice on living with diabetes from a trusted source: nurses. Simply organized and cleanly written, What Nurses Know-- Diabetes provides individuals and their families, friends, and health care practitioners with the information they want and need. Special features include numerous sidebars and call out boxes with "Nurses Notes," definitions of common terms, resources, online tools, websites to help those with living with diabetes, and lists of support groups"--
English.
9781935281542 1935281542 1283099837 9781283099837 9786613099839 661309983X
8F89952D-6599-45E6-9CB2-794891138B1E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Diabetes--Popular works.
Patient education.
Diabetes.
RC660.4 / .M47 2011eb
616.4/62
WK 810 / M575 2011eb
What nurses know--diabetes / Diabetes Rita Girouard Mertig. - 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages) - What nurses know-- . - What nurses know-- .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Diabetes: what is it? -- 2. What can I eat? -- 3. Why should I exercise? -- 4. How do medications help? -- 5. Glucose monitoring: what do I do with the results? -- 6. How can I prevent complications? -- 7. Diabetes and pregnancy -- 8. Emotions and diabetes -- 9. How can I get the help I need? -- 10. How can family and friends help? -- 11. Staying motivated -- Glossary -- Resources -- References -- Index.
"Over 23 million American live with diabetes, and many will experience serious complications like blindness, kidney damage, and cardiovascular disease. Knowing how to control blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids is essential. What Nurses Know-- Diabetes offers timely advice on living with diabetes from a trusted source: nurses. Simply organized and cleanly written, What Nurses Know-- Diabetes provides individuals and their families, friends, and health care practitioners with the information they want and need. Special features include numerous sidebars and call out boxes with "Nurses Notes," definitions of common terms, resources, online tools, websites to help those with living with diabetes, and lists of support groups"--
English.
9781935281542 1935281542 1283099837 9781283099837 9786613099839 661309983X
8F89952D-6599-45E6-9CB2-794891138B1E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Diabetes--Popular works.
Patient education.
Diabetes.
RC660.4 / .M47 2011eb
616.4/62
WK 810 / M575 2011eb