El CECOVA claimed the presence of school nurses in schools for auxiliary, assist and educate students diabetic.
la College Nursing Organization recalls that diabetic students enrolled in ordinary schools need control of blood glucose and insulin administration ”.
Valencia, November 2011- On the occasion of World Diabetes Day, the Working Group of nursing and health school (ENSE) of the Council of nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana (CECOVA) reported on Monday on the possible risks of people with diabetes and claimed the presence at all the schools of a school nurse for Assistanthelp and educate students, teachers and parents and mothers on the particularities of this chronic disease.
Thus, the school nurses of the CECOVA explained that there are two types of diabetes, the type I and type II. In diabetes type I, which is usually diagnosed in childhood and adolescence, there is little or no insulin and glucose builds up in the bloodstream and the body is unable to use it for energy. For its part, diabetes type II usually diagnosed in adulthood and there’s a problem in how the body uses insulin, which is necessary for the blood sugar enter cells so that it is stored and later used as energy. Diabetes type II there is a resistance to insulin and glucose does not fit into the cells and not obtained energy.
Schoolchildren overweight
The ENSE group of the CECOVA indicated that the majority of patients suffering from type II diabetes suffer from obesity, and in this regard, we must not forget that more children are schoolchildren with overweight problems that may develop this disease of adults with a school nurse that educate children and parents which is important.
For this reason, is considered very important of of nursing professionals in school work to prevent such diseases and detect potential health problems in an early age. In this regard, school nurses of the CECOVA remember that if lifestyle habits are changed by others more healthy we can prevent a host of diseases in adulthood.
Thus, the Working Group of the CECOVA ENSE claimed the continued presence of a school nurse in every school to educate in health throughout the educational community (Faculty, students, and mothers and fathers) to acquire healthy lifestyle habits that facilitate the prevention of disease.
In addition, in the specific topic of diabetes, school nurses remind that a diabetic child should know and know when you have high or low levels of glucose in the blood, which foods are healthy, know administered insulin, in addition to knowing that working out how to live healthy and control your blood sugar levels.
Needs of diabetic students
In this sense, diabetic students enrolled in regular schools need controls blood sugar and the insulin administration at different times of the school day, and therefore go a nurse at a given moment from the health center closest to the school is only a patch, which, in any caseIt is functional, because we can not plan when an epileptic boy will suffer a comicial crisis or when a diabetic girl descompensará your blood sugar levels.
In addition, it should be recalled that the continued presence of professionals in nursing school at the schools would also deploy an extensive and important work of early detection and prevention of health problems more prevalent among children and young people, such aschildhood obesity or eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.
In this regard, the Working Group of the CECOVA ENSE recalls that the ideal place to make an effective promotion and health education are colleges and institutes, being the early ages of life which have shown more suitable for this.
