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Nursing Now, 2012, V11 N4, Advocate Aurora Health
Nursing Now, 2012, V11 N4, Advocate Aurora Health
Historical Documents - Combined
Advocate Christ Medical Center and Hope Children's Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL: Internal publication written by nurses for a nursing audience. This is the final issue entitled Nursing Now. It is continued as Nurse's Notes. This issue highlights recent conferences, award recognitions, an interview titled, "The Making of an Advocate Nurse", and different community and charitable events nurses participated in. The contact hour education section is on diabetes medications.
Improving Annual Diabetic Foot Examinations At A Rural Primary Care Clinic, Michaela Moore, Shannon Harris, Christy Mnzava
Improving Annual Diabetic Foot Examinations At A Rural Primary Care Clinic, Michaela Moore, Shannon Harris, Christy Mnzava
Poster Presentations
The goal of this quality improvement project was to increase the number of adult patients who receive an annual diabetic foot examination through the education and training of clinicians and support staff.
Effects Of Diabetes On Speech And Language Across The Lifespan, Tayla Slay
Effects Of Diabetes On Speech And Language Across The Lifespan, Tayla Slay
2023 SLP Posters
According to the CDC, “diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects the way your body turns food into energy”. More than 37 million adults in the United States have diabetes which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. With diabetes affecting such a large portion of the population, what do speech-language pathologists need to know about how blood sugar affects speech and language in various types of individuals? This literature review explores the effects of language development later in the life of babies born to mothers with diabetes. The effects that diabetes has on adults’ …
Diabetic Foot Wound Care, Richard Q. Vuong
Diabetic Foot Wound Care, Richard Q. Vuong
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Diabetic foot wound care educational pamphlet developed during the family medicine rotation for 3rd-year medical students. This project was developed in Brookfield, CT.
Handout To Promote Diabetes Education In Spanish Speaking Patients, Javier Rincon
Handout To Promote Diabetes Education In Spanish Speaking Patients, Javier Rincon
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Hispanic adults are 70 percent more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician. In 2017, Hispanics were twice as likely to be hospitalized for treatment of end-stage renal disease related to diabetes, as compared to non-Hispanic whites. In 2018, Hispanics were 1.3 times more likely than non-Hispanic whites to die from diabetes. Lack of readily accessible educational material in different languages can lead to educational deficits in non-English speaking patients.
Pre-Visit Questionnaire For Diabetic Patient Visits, W. Evan Shaw
Pre-Visit Questionnaire For Diabetic Patient Visits, W. Evan Shaw
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
What role does a pre-visit questionnaire, such as a "diabetic distress tool," play in optimizing diabetic patient visits?
Improving Retinopathy Screening For Patients With Diabetes: Optometrists Accepting New Patients On Medicaid +/- Interpreter Services, Kassondra M. Little
Improving Retinopathy Screening For Patients With Diabetes: Optometrists Accepting New Patients On Medicaid +/- Interpreter Services, Kassondra M. Little
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
For patients with diabetes, screening for microvascular complications like retinopathy requires annual retinal photography or dilated fundoscopy to identify and mitigate processes that can cause preventable blindness. Yet, by measures at the state and federal level, the percent of patients achieving this care is below target. At the Community Health Centers of Burlington (CHCB), the barriers responsible for this include uncertainty among patients and providers about which local optometry offices accept Medicaid, are scheduling new patients and have interpreter services available. This project aimed to improve retinopathy counseling, the achievement of retinopathy screening and the time burden placed on providers …
Standardized Training To Improve The Quality Of Screening Diabetic And Hypertension-Related Opthalmoscopic Exams, Ashley Faye, Pradeep D'Souza, Elizabeth Suniega
Standardized Training To Improve The Quality Of Screening Diabetic And Hypertension-Related Opthalmoscopic Exams, Ashley Faye, Pradeep D'Souza, Elizabeth Suniega
Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2023
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