- Monitoring of blood glucose and urine ketones
- Recognition, treatment, and prevention of acute complications
- Hypoglycemia
- Hyperglycemia
- Pragmatic information
- Where to buy and store insulin, syringes, and glucose monitoring supplies
- When and how to contact the physician
Diabetes Mellitus Patient education
- Planning In-Depth and Continuing Education
- Foot care
- Eye care
- General hygiene (eg, skin care, oral hygiene)
- Risk factor management (eg, control of blood pressure and blood lipid levels,
normalizing blood glucose levels)
Diabetes Mellitus Misconceptions Related to Insulin Treatment
- Once insulin injections are started (for treatment of type 2 diabetes), they can never
be discontinued
- If increasing doses of insulin are needed to control the blood glucose, the diabetes
must be getting ―worse‖
- Insulin causes blindness (or other diabetic complications)
- Insulin must be injected directly into the vein
- There is extreme danger in injecting insulin if there are any air bubbles in the syringe
- Insulin always causes people to have bad (hypoglycemic) reactions
Diabetes Mellitus Acute Complications
- Hypoglycemia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKK)
- Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketotic syndrome (HHNS)