Question

A home care nurse visits a 79-year-old female client recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. She takes her oral antidiabetic medication only sporadically, and is not following her new diet.

1. What action would you take first when exploring the client's noncompliance?

2. List three ways you would demonstrate caring to the client.

3. The client says, "I don't really think I have diabetes. I feel fine, except that I'm always thirsty." How would you deal with this belief?

4. The client tells you she forgets to take her pills and can't remember whether she's taken them. How might you address this problem?

5. The client lives alone and has limited ability to prepare meals. How might the nurse address this problem?

Answer 1

Answer:It is important to consider about the diet and lifestyle of the patient to explore the client's noncompliance. The monitoring of the blood sugar level is important.

The three ways to demonstrate caring to the client:

• Increased blood sugar levels may increases the risk of other disease.
• Importance of the medication should be explained.
• Patient should have proper diet and exclude the consumption of sugar or sugary products.

Feeling thirsty is one of the example of diabetes. The client should be made to understand the symptoms which occurs due to diabetes such as low vision, thirsts, feeling hungry etc.

The client should have reminder calls or can use mhealth for medication compliance or should mark on the calendar for the drug.