NURS8730 Diabetes Management

Select an appropriate person with diabetes from your health care setting or who you know outside of a health care setting. Choose a person whose diabetes is being managed with oral glucose lowering medications or insulin. The person may be any age, gender or nationality. If you have any doubts about the suitability of the client for this assignment please discuss suitability with the topic coordinator.
Write an academic essay in keeping with the expectations of a post graduate qualification.
The aim of the assignment is to demonstrate above foundation knowledge of your discipline of diabetes and to critically analyse the overall management of the chosen person with diabetes.
Discussion
In the course of the essay outline how the medical diagnosis of diabetes was made for the person. For example, what tests were done and what were their results. To demonstrate that you know what tests should be done and why, you will need to include a discussion from a suitable literature.
The discussion will also need to include the type of diabetes the person has and the pathophysiology of the type of diabetes, the use of glucose lowering medications and/or insulin therapy and other pharmaceutical agents, healthy eating, exercise/physical activity, diabetes complication management and relevant psychosocial problems that the person/family might need to have considered. Again refer to suitable evidence to support your discussion.
In the discussion also include the rationale for and critique of the management of the person with diabetes.  Refer to the relevant literature/evidence to support the discussion.
When discussing the management of the person with diabetes, include your own assessment of persons needs/problems and the actions which are required to achieve desired outcomes.
Locate any useful resources which may assist your chosen person with diabetes to increase their knowledge and potentially improve their health e.g Diabetes Australia Living with Diabetes – Work