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"The body of knowledge that serves as the rationale for nursing practice determines the areas of specialty to develop as well as the manner in which that knowledge is organized, tested and applied." -Carper, 1978

Diabetes > Monitoring > Assess

Assess

Especially important to evaluate are patient’s verbalized and demonstrated knowledge, behavior and status.
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Do they have an understanding and competency with the product they are presently using and how do they use the information they are receiving from the meter?

Adult Diabetes Needs Assessment (pdf) - Feb 1st, 2011
Form to sssist with assessing patient's medications, diet, activity, foot care, support network, etc.

Telephonic Monitoring for Patients with Diabetes (pdf) - Feb 1st, 2011
Questions to ask patient during telephonic monitoring

Newest Vital Sign Score Sheet - Spanish (pdf) - Feb 1st, 2011
Newest Vital Sign score sheet to use with patients - spanish

Best Practice Recommended Questions to Assess a Patient's Current Monitoring Plan and Technique (News Article) - Jul 20th, 2006
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...

 


The development of the hypertension and chronic stable angina project was made possible by a grant from the New York State Attorney General on behalf of the Attorneys General of all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico from litigation settlement funds to benefit the healthcare needs of consumers with high blood pressure and angina. Original funding for the site was provided in part by US Congress and CDC. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.