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Running Head: TEACHING DIABETES 2 PREVENTION 1
Name: Lena Acker
Professor: Balog
Class:Nsg4028
Date:09/26/2018

Teaching Diabetes Prevention 2
A Patient Guide to Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes is one of the most serious lifestyle diseases today. The hospitals where I
work as a health education worker is in the process of raising awareness among the patients,
the family, and the staff in the prevention of diabetes as opposed to the treatment. There are
many patients who are coming to seek treatment for the disease. Although the patients were
initially adults, there has been a change such that even children and young adults are coming
for treatment after showing symptoms. In this paper, I will discuss the pre-diabetic patients as
the learners and the setting where the teaching will take place. The assessment will be on how
the patients can change their lifestyles to counter the disease. Lastly, I will describe the
theoretical approaches used in the teaching. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has
said that lifestyle interventions are one of the best ways of delaying the onset of diabetes in
patients who are pre-diabetic. The World Health Organization encourages prevention,
awareness and strengthening prevention and control measures. According to the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the screening for diabetes is more
frequently done in a healthcare setting than at the community level (Information et al., n.d.)
Educating the patients
The learners or my audience would mainly be pre-diabetics who are children and
adults of both sexes. In the hospital setting, the nurses will be taught how to help the patients
in the screening. The pre-screening should be done on all patients the first time a patient visits
the hospital. The nurses will be educated on how to test the glucose in the blood. They will be
trained on how to use the electronic health records to alert the healthcare professionals about
the patients who should be screened for the disease. The standard ordering protocol such as
the glucose testing would be carried out by the trained staff during the hospital visits. The
other opportunity for screening is when the nurses are managing the other non-related

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conditions. The diabetes educators and the nurses will ask open-ended questions during the
training sessions. It would be necessary to use PowerPoint presentations, charts, and video
clips to demonstrate the onset and prevention of diabetes. The pre-diabetic patient would be
the priority although the immediate family members would be co-opted in the training. If the
patient is a man, his wife would be considered to offer emotional support. For a child, the two
parents would be considered for training alongside their child ("Patient education: Diabetes",
n.d.).