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This site provides homecare clinicians with access to chronic care management models, best practices and downloadable resources for homecare patients.
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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
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Diabetes
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Nutrition
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Homecare patients with diabetes should receive individualized medical nutrition therapy.
Diabetes - Nutrition - Best Practice:
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Medical nutrition therapy should be based on presence of co-morbidities, and the assessment of food preferences, cooking facilities, capabilities, dentition and swallowing ability, food availability, cultural appropriateness, finances, personal preferences, and individual wishes and willingness to change as indicated to help achieve treatment goals, avoid hypoglycemia, and to prevent and minimize complicating conditions.
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| Assess
(8 documents) |
| Progress towards goals must be assessed every visit and intervention and goals should be revised accordingly.
Diabetes - Nutrition - Assess
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| Plan
(8 documents) |
| The nutrition plan of care should include measurable specific patient goals that are realistic and obtainable.
Diabetes - Nutrition - Plan
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| Implement
(69 documents) |
| Implementation is the critical stage when an assessment and a plan are put to work.
Diabetes - Nutrition - Implementation |
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| Evaluate
(6 documents) |
| The goals and interventions for diabetes patients are evaluated regularly and revised to achieve desired health outcomes.
Diabetes - Nutrition - Evaluate |
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Nutrition
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