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Designed for the Unique Needs of Homecare Providers
This site provides homecare clinicians with access to chronic care management models, best practices and downloadable resources for homecare patients.
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Jul 20th, 2006
Best Practice Recommended Questions to Assess a Patient's Current Monitoring Plan and Technique
Assessing Current Practices:
- When do you normally use your blood glucose meter to check your blood sugar?
- What would be a low blood sugar reading for you?
- When was the last time you had a low blood sugar reading?
- What would be a high blood sugar reading for you?
- When was the last time you had a reading that you would consider too high for you?
- Do you sometimes check your blood sugar 2 hours after you have eaten?
- How do you use the information you obtain from checking your blood sugar?
Assessing Meter Use:
- Would you please show me how you use your meter to check your blood sugar?
- When you replace the lancet that pricks your finger from your lancet device, what do you do with the used lancet?
- Is meter currently coded correctly for strips being used?
- Does the patient have any difficultly using the meter correctly? (e.g. enough blood, handling strips, visualizing displayed meter information)
- If meter used several times a day or is over a year old, when was meter battery changed?
- Is the time and date on the meter set correctly?
Assessing Resources, Risk, and Readiness
- What is your current plan for obtaining the supplies you need to check your blood sugar? (e.g. strips, batteries, control solution, lancets for lancet device)
- On a scale of 1-10 how important do you think it is for you to check your blood sugar?
- On a scale of 1-10 how confident are you can check your blood sugar level?
- What could you do differently about checking your blood sugar?
- What do you do with the information you get when you check your blood sugars?
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