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Miss Matthews is a 16-year-old female who is brought to the emergency department after collapsing at...

Miss Matthews is a 16-year-old female who is brought to the emergency department after collapsing at school. She is currently alert, but pale and weak. A blood glucose performed by the paramedics read meter Max or high.

What additional nursing assessments should be performed at this time?

What history questions would you like to ask of the patient and/or her parents?

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Diabetes

It is defined as a group of diseses that results in excessive amount of sugar in blood.

" How can she be diabetic when she is so skinny and exercises all the time?

What is an appropriate response by the nurse?

  1. Explain her parents that no matter how thin you are, you can still get diabetes.it is not related to how your physique look like
  2. Explain that the ineffective production of insulin results in diabetis. A lean body has nothing to do with this .
  3. Illustrate her parents that about 10-15 percentage of people who have diabetis are at healthy weight.

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