Type two diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness requiring patient education and frequent assessments to reduce the risk of health complications. Controlling the disease requires major behavioral and lifestyle changes including: following a prescribed diet, taking oral antidiabetic medications or insulin, increasing exercise, reducing weight, and frequent blood glucose assessment. Per the American Diabetes Association (2016), diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States of America. It is estimated 29.1 million people in the United States have diabetes with 8.1 million undiagnosed (American Diabetes Association, 2016). An objective of Healthy People 2020 includes reducing the number of cases, death rates, side effects, and financial burden of type two
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Identity is the patients concept of themselves at any given time and is situated within the body. Temporality progresses through time with the disease as it builds from perceptions of the past, present, and possible future. Body is the activities in life the patient experiences and is derived perceptions based on how the body relates to working. When the patient has uncertainty, it can occur in any of these concepts. Uncertainty in temporality the patient will have a distorted view of past events, current health situations, and perceived future. Uncertainty in body the patient may lose faith in their body to function properly, and fear how the body may change. Uncertainty in identity the patient can contribute the body failure to not doing well in life and form skewed perceptions of self or life expectations. In uncertainty of identity, the patient faces the largest risk of depression due to the shattered expectations of life plans and lose hope. As healthcare providers, we must identify these concepts and apply the four types of work to assist the patient in coping with the diagnosis of type two
Identity is the patients concept of themselves at any given time and is situated within the body. Temporality progresses through time with the disease as it builds from perceptions of the past, present, and possible future. Body is the activities in life the patient experiences and is derived perceptions based on how the body relates to working. When the patient has uncertainty, it can occur in any of these concepts. Uncertainty in temporality the patient will have a distorted view of past events, current health situations, and perceived future. Uncertainty in body the patient may lose faith in their body to function properly, and fear how the body may change. Uncertainty in identity the patient can contribute the body failure to not doing well in life and form skewed perceptions of self or life expectations. In uncertainty of identity, the patient faces the largest risk of depression due to the shattered expectations of life plans and lose hope. As healthcare providers, we must identify these concepts and apply the four types of work to assist the patient in coping with the diagnosis of type two