scenario: Carole Lund is a 44 yr old woman of mixed native American new mother at the clinic (gestational diabetes at week 30). She is concerned that she is not recovering from gestational diabetes. She has carefully logged her blood glucose since the diagnosis, and it shows 150-200 fasting, over 200 following meals. What are five nursing diagnoses? Develop a narrative with for a diabetic patient concept.
Analyze the needs of a patient and his or her family to ensure that the intervention will be relevant and appropriate for their beliefs, values, and lifestyle.
Consider how your patient’s economic situation and relevant environmental factors may have contributed to your patient’s current condition or could affect future health.
Consider how your patient’s culture or family should inform your concept map.
Determine the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis of your concept map.
Explain why your evidence is valuable and relevant to your patient’s case.
Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate for the health issue you are addressing and for the unique situation of your patient and the family.
Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the outcomes the patient needs to achieve.
Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.
Explain how you will communicate the aspects to the patient and the family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way. Ensure that your strategies:
Promote honest communications.
Facilitate sharing only the information you are required and permitted to share.
Are mindful of your patient’s culture.
Enable you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and his or her family, regardless of language, abilities, or educational level.
