Standing orders and practices | Diet | Pathophysiology | Insulin Management |
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What is the patient
The provider is often seen as the expert in diabetes management, but this individual is the expert of their disease.
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What is after the patient eats (so insulin can be adjusted based upon intake)
This is the best time to administer insulin for a patient with a history of poor intake?
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What is infection
Post operative patients with glucoses at or above 220 mg/dl can have this adverse outcomes
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What is 180
Type 2 diabetes with 2 or more readings above this glucose level should be started on insulin in the hospital
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What is 140 - 180
This is the target glucose for diabetic inpatients
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What is carb counting
This task is key in determining the amount of nutritional insulin needed for each meal
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What is 12 - 16
Healthy diabetics can store glucose for this many hours
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What is nutritional or bolus insulin
A normal pancreas responds to a meal by releasing this type of insulin (basal, nutritional or correction)
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