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Teaching on Management of Type 2 Diabetes

This paper is written for educating plan on management of type 2 diabetes for 51 years old Hispanic male. Our plan will involve an assessment on his willingness to learn and will provide information on the use of the mHealth applications to manage his Diabetes and obtain healthy lifestyle.

Patient Scenario

Reynaldo is 51 years old Hispanic male, diagnosed with of type 2 diabetes, came to the clinic for routine follow up appointment and complain of polyuria, polydipsia, back pain and fatigue. On assessment, his fasting blood glucose showed value of 190 mg/dl with A1C of 8.24 %. His height is 5’8”, weight- 230lb and BMI of 34.97 that falls under category of obesity. His vital signs were within normal limits, BP- 138/75, HR-78 bpm, RR-18, Temp-98.5F. Upon assessment on his diet and lifestyle he mentioned his diet mostly contains high carbohydrates diet which are rice, bread, potato, sugar containing foods and fast foods like hamburger, hot dogs, and fries. He also mentioned that he works from home for IT company. He stated that he does not get enough sleep at night and during leisure time he watches tv and enjoy playing play station. Besides his diet and lifestyle, he also smokes ½ packet of cigarette and glass of wine five time/week. All information collected from him are modifiable risk factors of type 2 diabetes mellitus which are unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle (Chawla et al., 2020). He stated he is now ready to make lifestyle changes and will involve himself in plan of care to maintain healthy lifestyle and manage his diabetes. He showed readiness and willingness to learn……..Continue