Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus

Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus
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Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is a common type of diabetes mostly in ageing adults. Due to high prevalence among adults and children, there is a need for proper teaching for healthcare practitioners tasked with the roles of providing care to the victims. The adults can handle themselves in monitoring their glucose levels as well as glucose injection. However, as Tsiouli et al. (2013) claim, the children need someone to watch over their glucose levels and administer the glucose injection in the time of need. Health care professionals such as nurses and doctors, therefore, need to train parents on how to care for their sick children. Deciding what needs to be taught to the parents can be easy when prescribed. However, nurses need to come up with a teaching plan determining the need-to-know and good-to-know aspects. Survival skill such as physiology and administration of medication are the most important things a parent needs to know to be able to care for their children. However, eating habits such as during holidays and cooking ideas are also a necessary part of the training needed to ensure the safety of their children.
Keywords: diabetes mellitus, glucose level, administration

Teaching Plan for Diabetes Mellitus
Identifying the goal of a teaching session is the beginning of creating an effective teaching plan. The primary objective is to instruct the parents on the blood glucose monitoring for their child. The first step is an assessment of the state of the child.

The trainer will give the parents a brief overview of diabetes mellitus, its symptoms and how it can be controlled using insulin. Also, the trainer will teach them how to assess the glucose level of their child. This involves conducting regular glucose tests using the self-test kit. The trainer needs to inform the parents how to record the results and interpret them correctly.
While managing diabetes, the glucose level of the child can get too low or too high. In the case the child’s glucose level varies, the parents need to be ready to administer insulin injections depending on the scale given by a doctor. Proper handling of the glucose injection as well as the right positions to inject are some of the things a trainer needs to inform the parents (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2013). After an insulin injection, the parents will need to ensure a proper diet for the child to avoid complications brought about by eating foods with high sugar or high weight.
Giving an insulin injection may or may not help the child in restoring the regular blood glucose level. However, the parents need to conduct a glucose test to be sure that the child’s glucose level is normal. If the blood glucose level is restored, then the parents have to manage the level through regular tests and proper dietary habits as well as exercise. If the blood glucose level is not restored, this calls for more medical assistance which they can seek from a medical practitioner in any hospital nearby.

References
Hockenberry, M. J., & Wilson, D. (2013). Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing9: Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing. Elsevier Health Sciences. Retrieved from http://www.repository.embuni.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/123456789/1176/Study%20Guide%20for%20Wong’s%20Essentials%20of%20Pediatric%20Nursing-%20Marilyn%20Hockenberry.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yTsiouli, E., Alexopoulos, E. C., Stefanaki, C., Darviri, C., & Chrousos, G. P. (2013). Effects Of Diabetes-Related Family Stress On Glycemic Control In Young Patients With Type 1 Diabetes: Systematic Review. Canadian Family Physician, 59(2), 143-149. Retrieved from http://www.cfp.ca/content/cfp/59/2/143.full.pdf