Health Care and Nurses

¶ … Nurses to Diabetics Examine the previous and today's positive effects nurses including advanced professional/advanced practice nurses have made in addressing diabetes. As the world keeps developing with associated growing population and industrialization, the number of people living with the medical condition of diabetes is on the rise.

Despite the widely held belief among diabetics that their personal doctors alone are tasked with the role of giving them relevant education and care, other health personnel have seen their importance in this issue enjoy a steady rise over the past few decades. It has been recommended that nurses should be in the forefront in the treatment or management of the disease due to their ability to provide less costly yet still excellent health care.

One of the major processes in self-management lessons for diabetics is educating its patients across all age brackets. Various researcheshave revealed that nurses deliver a higher quality of care than most doctors and they also cost less to use. In today's health environment, nurses have a worldwide importance when diabetics are concerned. Nurses used to be restricted to normal hospital and clinical tasks; however, they now take charge or work alongside doctors in most areas of health care delivery.

Thus, nurses are no longer restricted to the health facility activities, but they now go the extra mile in educating patients about prevention and helping in the treatment of infections and ailments in all spheres of health care delivery (Peimani et al. 2010). Crucially, nurses are involved in improving the lifestyle of diabetics as well as helping them control vital body fluids via proper training regimes. They try to show diabetics the best way to live quality lives despite the daily problems the disease poses.

They achieve this by supplying them and their loved ones with important information and advice needed to keep them in top shape despite the disease. Although quite a number of diabetics still hold on to the conventional belief that their doctors should be the ones giving them health care tips, the relative importance of other health personnel has been established via recent research. Due to these revelations, nurses have taken a front seat in the provision of quality care to diabetics over the last two decades (Peimani et al. 2010).

Describe how nurses can become more broadly involved with influencing health policy related to this issue. Include resources available. Comment by babyliza: This point not discussed. What's discussed is more of the benefits of health policies and the role of nurses in training and caring for diabetics.

Due to their increased importance to diabetics, nurses should strive to sway health policies in their favor so as to be better equipped to deliver high quality care in health facilities, schools and the society at large, and to get closer to the diabetics in the nation. Studies have confirmed that more improvement is recorded in diabetics when nurses work together with diabeologists, an indicator of the effectiveness of health personnel from various disciplines working together.

In order to achieve this level of treatment efficiency, proper training regimes should be created for nurses where they should be taught how to detect, prevent and treat various blood sugar situations and also how to educate the patient on steps aimed at living healthy and keeping blood sugar levels under check.

An associated reduction in the crowds at hospitals and clinics and the amount of money spent in managing the disease is another benefit of this step as nurses could deliver quicker treatment to diabetics preventing them from waiting too long (Peimani et al. 2010). Furthermore, nurses should endeavor to influence the government to implement more policies that prioritize intensive care for diabetics. This move will greatly enhance the level of care made available for diabetics as well as the number of trained nurses which would lead to a better health environment.

Further support for this idea was given bya study which proved that changing the rules guiding the health sector would lead to an improvement in the quality of care made available for diabetics by nurses. An example is that a policy could give Diabetes Specialist Nurses the authority to solely own their personal health facilities or engage in shared ownership with other health personnel.

The Diabetes Specialist Nurse and a specialist doctor could work together with both having their major separate duties but could also combine effort to improve quality of health care. Nurses should also try to sway the government to implement rules guiding the associated sickness and death caused by diabetes. This will increase the importance of this area to the general health sector.

It is quite clear that the success of nurses in influencing the government to create a better environment for treating diabetes would do its sufferers a whole lot of good. Hypothesize how nurses can positively impact future outcomes related to the provision of care for persons affected by the health issue.

So as to have a more positive influence on the later results of therapy, provision of proper diabetes treatment, adequate training of diabetics on how to correctly monitor their blood sugar level and apply sugar-reducing medications when needed should make up the goals of nurses. Also, the importance of proper diets, weight monitoring methods, benefits of continuous physical.