Performance Management and Health Informatics
The Healthy People 2020 diabetes objectives are aimed at reducing the economic burden that diabetes mellitus puts on victims. They are also designed to improve the quality of life of people suffering from the condition and those that are at high risk of developing the health complication. Diabetes mellitus occurs when an individual's body cannot respond or produce sufficient insulin to break down glucose. Insulin is necessary for the absorption of glucose in the human body. When there are no blood sugar signals that are normally facilitated by the presence of insulin, the body sugar levels rise to alarming levels and leads to other metabolic anomalies. These lead to serious health complications that are disabling (Healthy People, 2016).
Engaging Communities
The approach to management of diabetes has incorporated interventions that pursue patent-based self-management and changes in lifestyle that deal with diabetes mellitus issues. It is not always easy for diabetes patients to spend time with their health providers and have all their concerns addressed. It is essential to have a community health worker attending to the diabetes victims to solve this concern. Community health workers tend to be more flexible and dynamic. They help identify resources for the patients and provide case management assistance. Therefore, health care workers such as nurses and doctors should be equipped with skills to enable them deal with patients in a more culturally sensitive way and to respond to patient needs on a case-to-case basis. Such...
Moreover, there is evidence that in order for some interventions to succeed, there is need to incorporate the relatives and family of the affected individuals (Chambers, Comer-HaGans, & Ramamonjiarivelo, 2014, p. 91).
There are several techniques that have been seen as effective in this review from the perspective of engaging diabetes patients. Using self-management, utilization of health services on a regular basis and adopting healthy behavior by pursuing nutritious diets, physical activities and weight management demonstrated that a higher level of engaging the subjects produces a lot of desirable significant results. The review of the findings points to the need for health care givers to pursue engagement approaches. Further, it was shown in the review that using community health workers and clinicians leads to better outcomes in dealing with diabetic patients (Chambers, Comer-HaGans, & Ramamonjiarivelo, 2014, p. 94).
Leadership in Diabetes
Diabetes care faces leadership issues at the moment. It is a currency within the NSF delivery strategies for diabetes. Leadership in the nursing sector has been for a long time associated with politics and those in high office but appear isolated from the practical realities of the sector. In the past few years, there are various leadership alternatives that have been identified. Transformational leadership theory suggests that the input from each person is valuable. Such a perspective is closely associated to the principle of…
