NUR 313 – Diabetes Review Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 313
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NUR 313
What is diabetes? Group of disorders characterized by elevated blood glucose levels
What are different disorders in diabetes? defects in insulin production and insulin action
How many people in the US have diabetes? 30 million
How many people in the US have prediabetes? 84.1 million
What is dia...
NUR 313 – Diabetes Review Questions
and Correct Answers
What is diabetes? ✅Group of disorders characterized by elevated blood glucose levels
What are different disorders in diabetes? ✅defects in insulin production and insulin
action
How many people in the US have diabetes? ✅30 million
How many people in the US have prediabetes? ✅84.1 million
What is diabetes the leading cause of? ✅Adult blindness
End-stage renal disease
Nontraumatic lower limb amputations
What is diabetes a major contributing factor to? ✅heart disease
stroke
HTN
What counterregulatory hormones are involved in diabetes? ✅Glucagon, epinephrine,
growth hormone, cortisol
What do counterregulatory hormones do? ✅Oppose effects of insulin ; increase blood
glucose levels
Stimulate glucose production by liver
Decrease movement of glucose into cell
What are causative factors of diabetes? ✅genetic
environmental
autoimmune
What are different diagnostic tests for diabetes ✅fasting plasma glucose level
Hgb A1c level
2-hour postprandial/the oral glucose tolerance test
Random/casual plasma glucose measurement
What is important to know for fasting plasma glucose test? ✅>126 mg/dL
preferred method of diagnosis
What is important to know for Hgb A1c test? ✅>6.5%
takes the average amount of sugar in blood within 3-4 months
, What is important to know for 2 hour postprandial test? ✅>200 mg/dL
test taken when 75g of sugar is taken and sugar level is measured before, 1 hour later,
and 2 hours later
What is important to know for random/casual plasma glucose test? ✅>200mg/dL
plus symptoms
What is type 1 diabetes? ✅autoimmune disease that attacks the beta cells where the
insulin comes from
has a rapid onset w/ diagnosis
What are the classic s/s of type 1 dm? ✅polydipsia
polyuria
polyphagia
weight loss
weakness
fatigue
wound not healing
What is the collaborative care for type 1 DM? ✅Insulin
Nutrition management
exercise
pt education and self-management
detection and prevention of complications
What is important to balance with someone with type 1 dm? ✅exercise and diet
What are the two main types of insulin? ✅basal and bolus
What is basal insulin? ✅mimics normal steady output of insulin
Small amounts given throughout the day
What is bolus insulin? ✅Mimics insulin produced in response to food intake at meals
Increases during meal
What are different types of insulins? ✅rapid acting
short acting
intermediate acting
long acting
What is the prototype for long acting? ✅glargine, detemir
Is long acting basal or bolus? ✅basal
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