Diabetes Teaching Project
1) Review the assignment grading rubric
2) Create a teaching document for diabetic patients recently discharged from the hospital and to be managed in the primary care setting. The document must be written at the 5th-grade reading level.
The topic of the teaching is “Type II Diabetes Mellitus.”
2) Components of the teaching should include:
What is diabetes?
Describe the pathophysiologic process (keep it simple for the patient to understand)
How is diabetes diagnosed?
What does your patient need to know when going home from the hospital?
Diet: What can the patient eat and drink?
Management options: Oral Hypoglycemics vs. Insulin (how do they work in the body? instructions for use?)
When should the patient seek additional evaluation and treatment?
3) The document should be creative, using graphics or illustrations and an educational resource for the patient.
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