Health Plan Teaching
Diabetic Teaching Geared Towards My Haitian Father
Jennifer DuCrepin
Jacksonville University
School of Nursing
10/12/2012
Diabetic Teaching Geared Towards My Haitian Father My father was recently diagnosed as a diabetic and he is having a hard time managing the disease as well as my family. I decided to include some of the foods we eat in the teaching and include my whole family in the teaching process so this can be a family affair. My father is exceptionally obstinate and he requires a full team of support. As a nurse I have seen many patients undergo a great deal of growing pains which dejectedly leads to poorly managed blood sugars which leads to amputated digits and possibly death, selfishly I want my father around for a long period of time.
Assessment of Learning Needs My father is what we call old school and he will do as he pleases. When I asked my father, “What do you know about the disease daddy?”, he answered, “What disease, I just have sugar!” I was dumbfounded and my family especially my mother was shocked at his response. My father was under the misconception that he was diabetic because he had a sweet tooth which sorry to say he has passed on to me. My father is 64 years old who is 5’ 11 and weighs 205 pounds. He is taxi driver who immigrated to the United States in the 1970’s. He did not graduate from high school because he married young and worked to support his family back home. He did not like to go for checkups because he felt fine but 5 years ago he started to complain about headaches and when I finally got him to agree to see a doctor we found out he was hypertensive. Sadly, 6 months ago he was urinating frequently and losing weight and all testing came back informing us my father was a diabetic. My sisters are college graduates and they were ready to learn but my father was resistant and I deem he was unwilling to learn because he was petrified of coming across unintelligent. I also learned that a lot of people in our
Jennifer DuCrepin
Jacksonville University
School of Nursing
10/12/2012
Diabetic Teaching Geared Towards My Haitian Father My father was recently diagnosed as a diabetic and he is having a hard time managing the disease as well as my family. I decided to include some of the foods we eat in the teaching and include my whole family in the teaching process so this can be a family affair. My father is exceptionally obstinate and he requires a full team of support. As a nurse I have seen many patients undergo a great deal of growing pains which dejectedly leads to poorly managed blood sugars which leads to amputated digits and possibly death, selfishly I want my father around for a long period of time.
Assessment of Learning Needs My father is what we call old school and he will do as he pleases. When I asked my father, “What do you know about the disease daddy?”, he answered, “What disease, I just have sugar!” I was dumbfounded and my family especially my mother was shocked at his response. My father was under the misconception that he was diabetic because he had a sweet tooth which sorry to say he has passed on to me. My father is 64 years old who is 5’ 11 and weighs 205 pounds. He is taxi driver who immigrated to the United States in the 1970’s. He did not graduate from high school because he married young and worked to support his family back home. He did not like to go for checkups because he felt fine but 5 years ago he started to complain about headaches and when I finally got him to agree to see a doctor we found out he was hypertensive. Sadly, 6 months ago he was urinating frequently and losing weight and all testing came back informing us my father was a diabetic. My sisters are college graduates and they were ready to learn but my father was resistant and I deem he was unwilling to learn because he was petrified of coming across unintelligent. I also learned that a lot of people in our
References: 1. Nicole Jean, RD, LDN. (2011). Eating Well with Diabetes- Windows on Haiti. Retrieved Oct.10, 2012, from, haitifoever.com/windowsonhaiti/nutri006.shtml. 2. Georgia State University. (2011). Diabetic handout Hcreole. Retrieved Oct.10, 2012, from monarch.gsu/…/Haitian-Creole/Diabetes_handouts_Haitian_Creole.pdf