knitting‚ needlepoint‚ and quilting. She has a small income from her knitting and quilting work. She has a sizeable social support system that includes her children‚ her husband‚ and many friends. Mrs. Taffey is overweight and has insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). In conjunction with being a brittle diabetic‚ she has peripheral neuropathy with paresthesias of her fingers and feet‚ vision problems (diabetic retinopathy)‚ bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL)‚ and peripheral vascular disease
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intellectual disabilities clients with diabetes living in the community. Cognitive Domain The cognitive Domain is founded on a knowledge-based model. This model consists of six levels; remember‚ understand‚ apply‚ analyze‚ evaluate‚ and create (Coffey‚ 2013). It mimics the thinking process. Remembering is crucial in understanding a concept. For the clients who have limitation with reading and writing‚ visual or auditory aids are created to teach the client about diabetes. The more they see and hear‚
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CONSULTATION 1 Patient Name: Gerald Edwards Hospital No.: 11058 Consultant: Gary Sheldon‚ Podiatrist Requesting Physician: Catherine Baker‚ MD‚ Emergency Services Date: 07/16/2011 Request for Consultation: Right foot ulcer‚ complications of diabetes mellitus. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: The patient well known to me is pleasant 53-year-old diabetic male‚ with a one week history of a six cm diameter grade two diabetic ulceration beneath the medial cuneiform of the right foot. The patient also
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How to prevent teen pregnancy has been a question for many years now. Statistics have been running wild trying to keep up with the teenage generation. Many people have their opinions on the subject (teen pregnancy)‚ because teens seem to be getting pregnant all so fast these days. People fail to realize that having a baby is supposed to be a sort of privilege. Many people take having a baby as a joke. Getting pregnant and having a child involves many pros/cons. For example having a child can be harder
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How to Prevent Soil Erosion TERRACING Terrace farming is a farming method that makes use of a hill to create a multiplatform farm. There are severals steps known as andenes which are built into the side of a hill. The idea behind it is that any rain that falls and builds up on the andenes will overflow into another andene below‚ making the most out of the nutrients it provides. CROP ROTATION The successive planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil fertility and help
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Quantitative Article Critical Review Quantitative Article Critical Review The article titled Diabetes outcomes in primary care: evaluation of the diabetes nurse practitioner compared to the physician authored by Patrick Conlon finds better control of diabetes by nurse practitioners than physicians. The article finds better glycemic control and lower hemoglobin A1C lab values by nurse practitioners. The outcomes of nurse practitioners indicate nurse practitioners are essential members to the
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heart beats. The second number called the diastolic pressure and measures pressure in between heartbeats or when the blood vessels relax. High blood pressure is one of the most commonly associated medical conditions with diabetes. US statistics reveal 2 out of 3 adults with diabetes also have high blood pressure. High blood pressure increases the risk of diabetics for strokes‚ heart attacks‚ and kidney and eye problems. Controlling blood pressure involves dietary and lifestyle changes plus
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Stem Cells: Are They the Cure for Diabetes? Stem Cells: Are They the Cure for Diabetes? Diabetes is a disease that affects 25.8 million people in the United States alone‚ not to mention the 7.0 million people who are undiagnosed and the staggering 79 million people who are pre-diabetic (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2011). That number alone should send out an alarm that a cure is needed. Not just a treatment‚ but a real cure that will free sufferers from the strict
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HOW TO PREVENT AIR POLLUTİON Let us take a nice look to talk about what the aır pollutiıon really is. İ mean the reality is that the issue of air pollution control needs is something that we all are well aware of. But are we facing the exact way that we have to prevent it? Really‚ its a major problem to the whole of the continent and it can cause a global warming to all over the world. There are three steps that we have to take to solve this air pollution problems: recycling‚ saving energy and
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How to Prevent the Spread of HIV Felicia White English 1001 May 5‚ 2013 Sean Leary South University HIV has been on the rise for some years now. HIV is the Virus that causes the medical condition AIDS. This illness attacks the immune system‚ making a person susceptible to many infections and diseases. The virus is found in the body fluids of an infected person and can be passed from one person to another. HIV can be spread in various ways‚ such as vaginal‚ oral‚ or anal sex as well blood
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