Gestational age

Methods Evaluating the effectiveness of a proposed solution assesses the extent of program objectives being met, which demonstrates the changes in knowledge, attitude, skills, perception and behavior of the nursing professionals regarding diabetes mellitus, and changes in the health status of diabetic patients in a nursing home (Julia, Jacobs, Jones, Gabella, Spring & Brownson, 2012). All the four types of evaluation methods will be used to achieve the project objectives. Firstly, a formative…

Health insurance costs are a major contributor to the burden of diabetes mellitus. There are several different types of diabetes including, Type 1 and 2, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes mellitus therefore, insurance coverage for these patients will be further explored. The government has attempted to use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to reduce the discrimination of patients with chronic and pre-existing conditions in addition to better…

There are not any symptoms that are related to gestational diabetes, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be taken seriously. The doctor’s diagnosis this by running tests on women's blood sugar during pregnancy. With this type of diabetes it is important to rest, eat healthy, exercise, and monitor the baby and blood sugar levels in order to decrease the amount of serious risks to the health of the mother and child. Diabetes Statistics Diabetes affects approximately 29.1 million people,…

continues to expand with roughly 1.7 million new Americans being diagnosed each year. Roughly twenty-five percent of the 1.7 million newly diagnosed diabetics every year are people over the age of sixty-five (diabetics.org, 2014). Over the next fifteen years, as the baby boomer generation begins reaching the age of sixty-five and older, the percentage of elderly diagnosed diabetics will increase. Often, diabetics are seen in the hospital repeatedly due to not controlling their diabetes, which…

Diabetic Alert Dogs and Persons with Diabetes Mellitus It is always being said that dogs are man’s best friend. Not only can dogs be considered adorable and wonderful pets, they also have been proven to be remarkable service animals. According to the United States Service Dog Registry (2013), service dogs are dogs that are independently trained to accommodate for each individual’s specific disability. The most recent discovery of service dogs’ abilities are medical detection dogs. Medical…

exercises were conducted in a typical gym setting, while one was conducted as an aquatic exercise in a small pool. At the end of the study, the researchers concluded that aerobic exercises and conditioning on land and in water resulted in a decrease in gestational weight gain and preserved glucose tolerance in expecting mothers (Cordero, Mottola, Vargas, Blanco, & Barakat, (2015). With the large prevalence of pregnant women developing this form of diabetes, they should be informed of this…

The target group age was between 40 to 55 and classified as the middle-age adults. The author used the 11 functional health patterns to assess the group and realized at this age, their health is compromised due to higher risk of living with chronic disease such as hypertension or diabetes. Furthermore, the Haitian community views health as a personal…

In his book, The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein claims that those who constitute the population of individuals under the age of thirty are members of the “dumbest generation”. He even goes to such an extreme as saying, “You guys don’t know anything,” (Bauerlein). However, is this not true? In today’s society, the students in the education system have gone from genuinely attempting to learn subject matter to simply just caring about letter grades and percentages, rather than retaining the…

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a writer. I loved the idea of someone reading my thoughts and ideas as they were printed on paper. As of now technology has advanced quite well and has made the process of sharing information a great deal easier. I can proudly say that I am now a blog owner. However, it seems I may have entered the game a little late or perhaps a tad bit early. I’ve read in various places that there’s always an advantage when starting early. As the saying goes, “The…

the age of three. She began at a daycare than to preschool and now she is in Kindergarten. Her name is Jennifer Dolores Munoz, her Birthday is on August 17 and she was born in the year of 2011. She is five years of age and sixty-three months years old. She weighs 46 pounds and is 56 inches tall. Jennifer’s eye color are hazel and her hair color is light brown. She is above average in both categories height and in weight. She weighs like an average six-year-old. The average weight level at age…