Care of People with Diabetes :

Dunning, Trisha.

Care of People with Diabetes : A Manual of Nursing Practice / Trisha Dunning. - 3rd ed. - Chichester, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2009 2009. - xxvi, 530 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [514]-516) and index.

Diagnosing and classifying diabetes -- Assessment and nursing diagnosis -- Monitoring diabetes mellitus -- Nutritional aspects of caring for people with diabetes -- Medication commonly used in diabetes management -- Hypoglycaemia -- Hyperglycaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hyperosmolar coma and lactic acidosis -- Long term complications of diabetes -- Management during surgical and investigative procedures -- Special situations and unusual conditions related to diabetes -- Diabetes and sexual health -- Diabetes in the older person -- Diabetes in children and adolescents -- Women, pregnancy, and gestational diabetes -- Psychological and quality of life issues related to having diabetes -- Diabetes education -- Discharge planning -- Community and primary care nursing and home-based care -- Complementary therapies and diabetes -- Managing diabetes in the emergency situations.

9781405101110 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008047437

101487802 DNLM


Diabetes--Nursing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Diabetes Mellitus--nursing--Handbooks.

RC660 / .D785 2009

616.4620231 / DUN