Questions One
A team that focuses in diabetes management are essential in any hospital where diabetic patients receive treatment. The team is made up of professionals and persons with varying duties. However, their outstanding duties include; formulating blood sugar control protocols used in daily diabetes care, serving as diabetes resource persons, educators for newly diagnosed patients and those who require immediate attention. By ensuring proper care, patient’s infection rate and length of hospital stay go down significantly (Browning, 2010).
Inclusion Staff Nurse’s in the team helps with consulting patients’ case and in turn taking charge of the patient’s diabetes management. Protocols developed with the staff nurse participating helps with managing patients’ blood sugar level. By nurses ensuring blood sugar, level tests become routine blood sugar tests helps with diabetes care. The nurse will also be the overall overseer of inpatient’s diabetes program (Katsilambros, 2011).
Diabetes educator with the help of the whole team becomes the source information for other staff, doctors and patients. Diabetes management team deliver staff education at the bedside. Diabetes educator as team members will spend most his/her time educating other staffs on the treatment. Educators will also be doing post-discharge follow-up care for diabetic patients to reduce or eliminate re-admissions. A focused care assistant Patient will be used to help other patients have a better understanding on how to keep away other infections associated with diabetic condition (Browning, 2010).
A representative from the Pharmacists will be tasked with doing daily reviews of lab results from patients. Tests by pharmacists will help with identifying patients abnormal sugar levels, and also relate the result to either stress initiated diabetes that induced by medicine or their medical status (Katsilambros, 2011).
Question two
Data that can be collected to evaluate that situation is taking tests for blood sugar level in patients after a period of one hour. By doing this act as a life saver since, it determines the recommended insulin dose for each patient.
According to Katsilambros (2011), information on patient’s diabetic education during their stay in the hospital is important in managing the condition. Nurses ensure the diabetic patients go through diabetic education needs assessment. Results from the assessments are then used to as a guide to patient’s education. Normally the education focuses on diabetes survival skills, for instance understanding the signs and symptoms, blood sugar level monitoring and nutrition.
References
Browning, D. J. (2010). Diabetic retinopathy evidence-based management. New York: Springer.
Katsilambros, N. (2011). Diabetic emergencies diagnosis and clinical management. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
