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Article: Teach diabetics survival skills before discharge.
- Article from:
- Diabetes Management
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Teach diabetics survival skills before discharge
Diabetes education moving to outpatient area
About 10 years ago, nurses at York (PA) Health System would contact diabetes educators when a patient needed teaching. Today educators have moved to the outpatient area where they set up formal classes. This trend is common in health care today, says Donette Lasher, MAT, patient education coordinator for the health care system.
Some background
In the old system, when the educators left, the inpatient floor nurses were supposed to teach patients survival skills if they were admitted to the hospital for diabetes, then refer them to the outpatient ...