The primary care nurse plays a fundamental role.From nursing consultations, patients are worked on in the prevention, promotion and diagnosis of diabetes.People over 45 are the main population at risk.A risk that not only marks age, other factors such as sedentary lifestyle, excess weight or family history can favor their appearance.
People from these risk groups come daily to nursing consultations and the so -called 'Frindisk' test is held.It is a questionnaire consisting of eight items in which information is collected from the size or weight of patients, its abdominal perimeter, the body mass index, its consumption of daily fruit and vegetables, vitamins and their family history ofdiabetes.This test offers a score that tells us the risk that person has to have diabetes in the next ten years.
According to this score, the nursing professional catalogs the patient at established and differentiated levels according to risk probabilities.
Once the results of the 'frindisk test' are known, it is necessary to make glucose determinations to ruleOn the contrary, he already has it, to avoid worsening.
Therapeutic Education Plan
From the nursing consultation a therapeutic education plan will be established so that the patient can have all the knowledge and skills that allow him to be able to maintain good control of the disease by himself.A series of recommendations are facilitated to establish what type of food should carry and what type of physical activity has to perform.In the event that you had to medicate, in the nursing consultation a monitoring of how you should do it is carried out.Daily blood glucose controls, feet care, tension control and weight, as well as the modification of food or drugs, are some of the requirements that this pathology entails.
Therefore, it is necessary that the patient attends the nursing consultation to assess their learning needs, knowledge of the disease and their skills.How can you see is a complicated pathology not only because of the disease itself, but because patients have to make daily decisions about the management of their illness.It is they who have to learn to live with diabetes and have it under control.
Can it be prevented?
Some types of diabetes can be prevented with a healthy lifestyle, maintaining good poor carbohydrates, saturated fats, sugars, industrial pastries and physical exercise daily.With these measures we can maintain the prediabetic state without increasing and avoiding the appearance of diabetes or that it appears as late as possible and minimize the complications involved in this disease.
A new term has been coined: 'Diabesity', which indicates that most diabetic people have an obesity associated, not only in the adult population, but also in children.Obesity, sedentary and lack of exercise undoubtedly favor the appearance of this pathology.
World Diabetes Day
On November 14, Murcia hosted the national celebration of World Diabetes Day and the Nursing College of the Region of Murcia actively participated in the celebration of it.During November 13 and 14, the College collaborated with the Association of Diabetics of Murcia (ADIRMU) and the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED) with an exhibitor from which they heldFirst aid drills, diabetes prevention and management tips were offered, and signatures were collected for the implementation of school nursing in the schools of our region.
