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What nurses know--diabetes / Rita Girouard Mertig.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: What nurses know--Publisher: New York : Demos Health, 2011Description: 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781935281542
  • 1935281542
  • 1283099837
  • 9781283099837
  • 9786613099839
  • 661309983X
Other title:
  • Diabetes
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.4/62 22
LOC classification:
  • RC660.4 .M47 2011eb
NLM classification:
  • WK 810
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher
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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"-- Provided by publisher

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