Question

Case Study: Joey is a 14 year who was just diagnosed with diabetes. Joey has never been in the hospital before and is scared. He has lots of questions but is afraid to ask. He is getting a lot of information but is having a hard time remembering everything. Consider Joey’s age and brainstorm some innovative ways to educate Joey about diabetes.

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• Diabetes : diabetes is a chronic condition associated with abnormally high levels of the sugar glucose in the blood.
• In above case study ,joey is a 14 years hot who was just diagned with diabetes ,so We should provide health education about control of diabetes .
• As a health care provider it is our responsibility to educate the patient in promoting of his health .
• We should educate the joey in different ways such as making a power point presentation .
• Power point presentation is very much useful For joey ,because video gives much rememberance than audio.
• Advise the joey to note down the points which are most important in his daily life For control of his sugar levels .
• Advice joey to make care plan about his disease condition and daily plan of care .
• Advice the joey to join support group to manage diabetes .
• Provide the interventions in different ways such as poster presentation , flash cards , hand outs and flip charts etc .
• Educate the patient to search in online about his problem.
• Educate the client For daily checking of blood sugars , weight checks , reviewing of self care plan , dietary plan , physical activity , reviewing of medications .