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Continuous Glucose Monitoring And Diabetes Management During Pregnancy, Nicole Beamish
Continuous Glucose Monitoring And Diabetes Management During Pregnancy, Nicole Beamish
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Diabetes Management During Pregnancy
Abstract
According to the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and the Standards of Professional Performance for Diabetes Educators, registered nurses play an integral role in the promotion of diabetes self-management education and training in diabetes care (AADE, 2017). This paper upholds the standards set forth by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (2017) governing body, to stimulate the process of peer review, promote documentation of the outcomes of diabetes self-management education and training (DSME/T), encourage research to validate practice and improve quality DSME/T and diabetes care for pregnant women who use …
Eliminating Barriers To Chinese American Diabetic Patients: Implementation Of Diabetic Cantonese Group Visits, Sabrina Wong
Eliminating Barriers To Chinese American Diabetic Patients: Implementation Of Diabetic Cantonese Group Visits, Sabrina Wong
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Problems: Asian Americans have higher incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 and less preventive care and higher complication rates than the rest of the American population.
Context: According to the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (2016), Asian Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes compared to non-Hispanic whites by over ten percent.
Interventions: A comprehensive group visit program was implemented in a clinic in Oakland, Chinatown catered towards Cantonese-speaking diabetic patients. The group visit included culturally and linguistically appropriate materials related to nutrition, exercise, and diabetes knowledge. Each cohort attended a ninety-minute group visit session …
Healthcare Provider Education: Adult Jamaicans With Type 2 Diabetes, Patricia Anderson
Healthcare Provider Education: Adult Jamaicans With Type 2 Diabetes, Patricia Anderson
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Abstract
Problem: Worldwide prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among the Jamaican population is 11.9% (WHO, 2016). Jamaican patients and their families have experienced first-hand the debilitating complications of this deadly disease.
Context: Jamaicans with diabetes who live in the US experience these same complications. Approximately 300,000 Jamaicans live in Florida (Peart, 2020). This change of practice project was conducted with healthcare providers employed in a family medicine clinic in Florida that treat Jamaicans with T2DM.
Intervention: This change of practice project used an online evidence-based educational training (i.e., Jamaican culture, diet, and health beliefs and how to use …