| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 292 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
What nurses know-- |
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What nurses know--
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Diabetes: what is it? -- 2. What can I eat? -- 3. Why should I exercise? -- 4. How do medications help? -- 5. Glucose monitoring: what do I do with the results? -- 6. How can I prevent complications? -- 7. Diabetes and pregnancy -- 8. Emotions and diabetes -- 9. How can I get the help I need? -- 10. How can family and friends help? -- 11. Staying motivated -- Glossary -- Resources -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Over 23 million American live with diabetes, and many will experience serious complications like blindness, kidney damage, and cardiovascular disease. Knowing how to control blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids is essential. What Nurses Know-- Diabetes offers timely advice on living with diabetes from a trusted source: nurses. Simply organized and cleanly written, What Nurses Know-- Diabetes provides individuals and their families, friends, and health care practitioners with the information they want and need. Special features include numerous sidebars and call out boxes with "Nurses Notes," definitions of common terms, resources, online tools, websites to help those with living with diabetes, and lists of support groups"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Diabetes -- Popular works.
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Patient education.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Diabetes.
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Diabetes. (OCoLC)fst00892147
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Patient education. (OCoLC)fst01055007
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Diabetes Mellitus -- Popular Works.
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Patient Education as Topic.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Added Title |
Diabetes |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mertig, Rita G. What nurses know-- diabetes. New York : Demos Health, 2011 9781932603989 (DLC) 2010047348 (OCoLC)607977137 |
| ISBN |
9781935281542 (electronic bk.) |
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1935281542 (electronic bk.) |
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