Monitoring and training for families and children with pediatric diabetic debut

-The professionals responsible for delivering nursing care have developed an information package to family members and patients need to know before the high hospital

– care plan developed by the professionals of the torrevejense Center Premium clinical stability of the patient, his comfort, adaptation to the disease and supportinformation and training of the paediatric patient as their immediate environment.

Torrevieja, 2011-August Nurses from the Health Department, Torrevieja, managed by Bank health and Asisa and integrated in the public network of the Generalitat Valenciana, promote recovery, monitoring and education of pediatric patients diagnosed diabetes mellitus type 1.

Professionals responsible for delivering nursing care have developed a training package to family members and patients have to know prior to hospital discharge. Pediatric patients are trained in the importance of assimilate what his illness, what are its symptoms, how to deal with, what must be done in severe situations, as well as understanding and understand what the risks are, and how they cope with her new life living with the disease increased incidence of Pediatric Spain. endocrine

The care plan developed by the professionals of the torrevejense Center Premium clinical stability of the patient, his comfort, adaptation to disease and support, information and training both the paediatric patient as their immediate environment; fact that it is particularly important to the are faced with a disease that requires a special family follow-up.

Service of Pediatrics hospital and health centres that are members of the Department of health in Torrevieja are completely integrated and in constant communication. In this sense, when the child enters the emergency door and he is hospitalized, assigned automatically a specific plan of care to be followed from his income to discharge from hospital.

After discharge, the child leaves the hospital with your primary care appointment, where nurses of different health centres performed its monitoring and control, including it in a specific programme, continuing the educational work and ensuring the safety and well-being of the patient.

Nurses in the Department is organized through referring nurses in the care and control of the disease. Each of the primary health care centres has a nurse of reference which is in charge of ensuring continuity and the established care plan complies with rigour.

The nurses Olga Muriel and Natalia Méndez in the area of hospitalization and Raquel Bern in primary care claim to be aware of the importance of having a plan of care specific to this type of children, that, through a comprehensive medical package gets sick and family members to understand and face up to his illness in an environment of security comfort and ”.

The implementation of this specific plan of care for pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus would not be possible without the prior training of personnel responsible for this kind of sick. For this reason, nursing professionals involved in the process have been instructed in the treatment of the disease, as well as training and information and education diabetológica functions that have to transmit both the patient and their family members.

More about type 1 diabetes

In diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM-1) the pancreas does not produce insulin. When we have no insulin, glucose is not within the cell and is circulating in the blood, producing hyperglycemia, i.e. high blood glucose. Classically to the DM-1 has been called Junior by generally occur at these ages, but although this is more common, it can also occur in adulthood.

Symptoms that can make us suspicious of diabetes are an intense thirst, excessive desire to urinate, fatigue, increased appetite, and in spite of this loss of weight. These symptoms are not more than the consequence of high levels of glucose in the blood, so that may occur also when, once already-diagnosed diabetes, the control is bad and the glucose is high most of the time.