NURS103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clinical Nurse Specialist, Glycated Hemoglobin, Nurse Practitioner
16 Dec 2017
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Your client tells you they have an hba1c level of 8. 5. Average blood sugar over last 3 months. Determines how well a person"s diabetes is being self-managed. Diabetes mellitus you will see patients with diabetes throughout your career. **we need to tackle it at the individual, community and population level! Nurses in community health work on the issue at all levels individual, community and population o. Individual - nurse working in home care doing wound visit (diabetic wound: community - foot care clinic, population - lobbying for sugar policies (for drinks), lobbying for screen time for kids. Both have degree, rn registration, graduate education (clinical nurse specialist doesn"t necessary need np, but need graduate education, np needs the np license) (cna) o. Focused, expertise, interprets and applies evidence: https://www. cna-aiic. ca/~/media/cna/page-content/pdf- en/ps60_advanced_nursing_practice_2007_e. pdf?la=en. Work in a variety of settings (community, clinics, interprofessional clinics, continuing care, hospitals) Order and interpret tests (send for lab work, ecg) High quality chronic illness management https://cna-aiic. ca/en/professional-development/advanced-nursing-practice/nurse- practitioners.
