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What Nurses Know...Diabetes

The Answers You Need From The People You Trust
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In the US, 23.6 million people - 7.8 percent of the population - have Diabetes. Diabetes can lead to serious complications, including blindness, kidney damage, Cardiovascular Disease, Peripheral Neuropathy and lower-limb amputations. People with Diabetes can lower the occurrence of these and other Diabetes complications by controlling blood glucose, blood pressure and blood lipids. What Nurses Know...Diabetes sheds new light on this disease from a trusted source: Nurses. This book will provide down-to-earth information and explain clearly what a reader needs to know and wants to know to understand about Diabetes so they can move forward with their lives. Special features include: Numerous call-out boxes with ""What Nurses Know "" Definitions of common terms Resources, online tools, and specific websites to those living with Diabetes About the series: Nurses hold a critical role in modern health care that goes beyond their day-to-day duties. They share more information with patients than any other provider group and are alongside patients twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, offering understanding of complex health issues, holistic approaches to ailments and advice for the patient that extends to the family. Nurses themselves are a powerful tool in the healing process. What Nurses Know gives down-to-earth information, addresses consumers as equal partners in their care, and explains clearly what readers need and want to know to understand their condition and move forward with their lives.
Diabetes: What is it?; Nutrition; Exercise; Medication; Glucose monitoring: Why Should I do This and How?; Complications: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment; Depression and Anxiety and The Why Mes?; How to Find and Get the Help You Need; How to Stay Motivated; Resources
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