Assessment and Evaluation of Diabetes 2 Patients Self Management Program

¶ … persons diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (Cadzow, Vest, Craig M., Rowe, & Kahn, 2014). The medical practitioners have made efforts to improve clinical treatments for patient's life with a lot being left to chance. Recently, it has been seen that patient self-management program complement the clinical treatment. Thus, patient's self-management program has a significant role to play towards the management of diabetes (Saxe-Custack & Weatherspoon, 2013). This paper presents measures of implementing a self-management plan for Diabetic patients. The plan intends to apply articulated measures of managing Type 2 Diabetes and improving the quality of life for patients (Gamboa Moreno et al., 2013).

For the purposes of arriving implementing and assessing the effectiveness of the program the subjects selected will be gathered in a training forum. The forum will undertake the task to inform the subjects the prevailing measures of care on Type 2 Diabetes and the target for the current program. The potential respondents will be selected from the existing hospital medical database indicating the treatments pursued and the patient chart in response to treatment and medication. In order to initiate the program, the selected subjects will be advised to fill out a consent form that expresses their will to participate in the program. The consent form will also give authority to the program implementer authority to access medical information on the patients for use in determining response to proposed measures.

The proposed program will take a total two (2) years to implement where the respondents will be encouraged to participate in half yearly evaluation of their diabetes Biofactors. At the start of the project, the diabetes factor for each respondent will be recorded this forming the base and subsequent records being assessed against the base period records.

In order to implement the project, there is a need for a qualified physician, laboratory specialist and clinical nurses who will serve as a resource person to the project in medical aspects. The physician, laboratory specialist and the clinical nurses will facilitate the collection of medical bio data, recording and analyzing it for the program. The Nurses will further be engaged in gathering other information concerning the quality of life and the patient's follow-up in the program. The physician will be engaged in the delivery of training to the patients on Diabetes self-management program. For purposes of this training, the program will provide the participants with self-management pamphlets detailing ideal measures for executing the treatment program. In order to undertake the requisite tests, a laboratory with test kits for Diabetes Bio Vitals will be needed. The program also needs a training room that will serve as the resource center where information of self-management care will be dispersed to the participants.

To monitor the program's implementation questionnaires and interview schedules' will be utilized. This will afford the program an opportunity to evaluate the achievement and contributions of the program and the ideal measure to take to improve the program's outreach. The questionnaires will be used to collect bio data and the patients' responses on quality of life as follow-up measures in the program implementation. The interview schedule will be used to supplement the questionnaire by gathering specific information on the quality of life for the participants. This information will allow for an evaluation of the program. The Diabetic Bio Data will be collected using a laboratory data log sheet detailing Bio data from the base year to the termination of the period.

The information on patient self-management will be delivered through group training session facilitated by identified qualified physician. The core goal of the group training will be to educate the participants on the self-management care and delivery of guide materials. Prior to the group training, the physician, and the assisting nurses will be educated on the programs imitative and oriented on measures for training to the participants. This affords the training exercise the desirable articulation of issues and the proximity to solutions.

The data will be gathered from the start of the program to the termination of the program in an interval duration of six (6) months. The information gathered be recorded in spreadsheets and saved in a data encrypted hard drive accessible only to authorized personnel to the program. This will ensure the integrity of the program is reserved and the confidentiality of information. The data will be analyzed targeting to highlight improvements to on the patient's ailment and health given the practice of the self-management program. The data collected will be analyzed to derive regression analysis on the trends achieved from the program.