Control of Diabetes: Self-monitoring of Blood glucose



Control of Diabetes: Self-monitoring of Blood glucose

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to design a teaching/learning process for the control of Diabetes through self-monitoring of glucose level in the blood. Diabetes has affected millions of people in the United States. The disease occurs when there remains a high level of sugar, in blood, for an extended time period. However, it can be controlled through self-monitoring of glucose level through proper exercise, medicine, insulin injections and maintaining diet. The paper carefully examines various models of implementing the instructional strategy developed for learning/teaching process for control of diabetes and also aims to discuss the rationale behind the chosen strategy. Various evaluation methods are also discussed to examine the effectiveness of the teaching/learning process. Presently, there is no proper cure to diabetes.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Discussion1

Teaching/Learning Process3

The Overview of Diabetics, Blood Glucose Monitoring and its Goals4

Medications and Insulin4

Complications from Diabetes, Skin Care and Exercises4

Coping with Diabetes through Diet Control5

How to Assess the Learning Needs6

360 Degree Appraisal6

Self- Assessment6

Observation7

The Target Group7

Rationale for the Instructional Strategy and Evaluative Methods7

Formative Evaluation8

Summative Evaluation9

Two Models for Development of the Project9

Peer Support Model9

Face-To-Face Peer Mobilization10

Peer Coaches10

Telephonic Peer Support11

Stage Model11

Rationale for this choice12

Conclusion13

References14

Introduction

The level of sugar concentration in blood is the crucial reason behind being diabetic. There are three types of Diabetes. According to a research, 26 million people in the United States had diabetes from which 7 million people were undiagnosed and another 57 million people seemed to have pre-diabetes. The first type diabetes affect the younger generation, the second type affects the population above 40 and the third type affects the women during their pregnancy. This paper aims to design a teaching/learning process to address an identified learning need and target groups. The process will identify the target population group, how to assess the learning need, provide basis for the instructional strategy and evaluation techniques by using two or three models or theories for the development of the process and discusses the importance and rationale of the outcome.

Discussion

Diabetes occurs when a person has increasing level of sugar contents in the blood. It occurs when the body does not respond to the insulin produced in the body, or the body is not producing insulin. The symptoms of diabetes include loss of weight, increased urination, thirst and hunger. The symptoms may grow rapidly in type 1 diabetes as compared to type 2 diabetes, in which, the symptoms may not occur, at all. All types of diabetes are associated with the rick of long-term complications. Diabetic patients also carry a risk of cardiovascular disease, besides other diseases (Long, 2007). There are various causes of diabetes that include inheritance of the disease, genetic defects in production of insulin, lifestyle factors, drugs, infections and exocrine pancreatic defects, besides others.

Therefore, patients having diabetes have broader learning needs. The learning needs primarily focus on the self-monitoring of sugar levels in blood, diet planning, regular exercise and medications, intensive skin care, knowledge of medicines, disease process and how to ...