Diabetes management

Improving the quality of life for a patient with Diabetes

1. Discuss relationship between DM, HTN, Kidney and cardiovascular diseases

(Cite 6 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be less than 5 years old)

Define the patient health problem that will be the focus of this assignment (see above). Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings.

• Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.

• Summarize the problem you’ll explore.

• Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the problem

• Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.

• Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient with this problem

• Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.

• Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.

• Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.

• Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient outcomes for this problem.

• Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.

• Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions 

• Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient with this problem

• Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient outcomes for this problem.

• Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.

• Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.

• Provide an explanation, with examples, of how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or population problem, based on a perceptive and coherent synthesis of current literature. 

• Provide clear insight into how policy affects nursing scope of practice.

• Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient problem you’ve defined.

• Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.

• Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.

• Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.

• Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.