PICOT Question
How can adult patients keep their blood sugar
level within the range recommended by doctors?
Background of the Problem
Previously, adult patients were asked to use medicines
to maintain their blood sugar level, but the situation has now been changed.
Healthcare experts encourage patients to shed extra pounds, and for this
purpose, they are to do exercises and morning walk. In addition, they are asked
to quit smoking and drinking and to replace unhealthy meals with healthy and
fresh ones (Elliott, 2012). The traditional method of lowering the blood sugar
level is using medicines or injecting insulin every day. Alternatively, regular
and healthy eatables and physical activities can bring it down, and the biggest
advantage of this non-traditional method is that it is safer and better.
Doctors and nurses should educate people in this regard and need to encourage
them to go natural.
An Overview
Various adults with diabetes are labeled
noncompliant, and they have to face numerous problems due to poor disease management.
In some circumstances, they experience multiple hospital admissions. This is
the result of no health literacy. Doctors and nurses can play their integral
role by educating adult patients how to manage diabetes at home and how to
maintain the blood sugar level years after years. Providing them with medicines
or treatment options is not the ultimate solution to this problem. Adult people
with diabetes should be taught how to make the best use of nature to stay
healthy, fit and energetic.
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P – Patient/Population = Adult patients (males and females) with
type I and type II diabetes
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I – Indicator/Intervention = Self-management is the only way to ensure
physical and mental health
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C – Control/Comparator = People with diabetes often develop high
blood pressure, and both of these diseases can be dealt with if patients show
an interest in physical activities and use proper and healthy food
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O – Outcome = The chance is that within a month, people with
diabetes will be able to maintain their blood sugar level within the range
recommended by healthcare experts
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T – Timeframe = The time needed to accomplish this task is
20 to 30 days, starting from the day patients get to know everything about how
to manage their blood sugar level without depending on medicines
If the disease remains uncontrolled,
undiagnosed or untreated, then it can impact the whole body of an adult patient
and can even lead to death. Some of the most prominent signs and symptoms of
diabetes are excessive urination, muscle problems, sudden weight loss, blurred
vision, and excessive thirst. In the long-run, the disease may destroy a
person’s kidneys, stomach, brain or another body organ, so it has to be
diagnosed and treated naturally.
Evidence-Based Solution
According to Adnan Isgor, diabetes can weaken
the immune system and disturbs the blood circulatory system, so the only
immediate and effective evidence-based solution to the problem is
self-management (Isgor, 2012). Adult patients should be aware of how to lower
their blood sugar level while at home and how to ensure their health and
wellbeing in the absence of a medical expert.
Nursing Intervention
The chance is that an adult patient will not
be able to prevent or cure the illness at an early stage, so a nurse is
responsible for helping the person in this regard. The first and most
significant duty is to teach them what the normal range of blood sugar level
is. If the level is below 70, then the condition is known as hypoglycemia; on
the other hand, if the blood sugar level is above 160, then the condition is
called hyperglycemia. Nurses should encourage patients to depend on healthy
food and to do jogging, walk or yoga on a regular basis.
References
Isgor, A. (2012). The Relation
between Postoperative Blood Sugar Level and Infection. ANKEM Dergisi, 26(2),
99-104. doi:10.5222/ankem.2012.099
Elliott, W. (2012). Level of
Systolic Blood Pressure Within the Normal Range and Risk of Recurrent
Stroke. Yearbook of Cardiology, 2012, 74-76.
doi:10.1016/j.ycar.2012.02.070
