Development of a diabetes learning needs assessment tool
Development of a diabetes learning needs assessment tool
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annotated bibliography
Introduction
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1. Ann, M. H., Davis, A., & Glowatz, T. (2015). Development of a diabetes learning needs assessment tool to promote an individualized predischarge patient education plan. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 46(11), 484-486. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20151020-12
The purpose of this artic le is to motivate nurses’ staff to empower patient to improve their understanding of their diabetes management. The article emphasizes the importance of the knowledge. And successful glycemic control in diabetic patients. Therefore, Authors promote the necessity of implement a pre-discharge patient education plan to identify and address the knowledge. And skill needed for diabetic patients after discharge. The pre-discharge need assessment consist in several questions that the nurse can ask to patient such us: What medication do you take? Do you know how to administer correctly those medications? Are you in insulin? Do you how to how to drawing it up and injecting it? Do you know what A1C is? Etc.
The experiment was done to 44 diabetes patients. The need assessment was used in the admission. And in discharge day. Nurses used the data collected to select appropriate learning materials. And used them to reinforce the patients’ knowledge. As a result, the diabetic education increased in from 36% to 63% in five months. The documentation of diabetes education also increased because nurses understood the importance of the education in diabetic patients.
2. Blackman, N. (2008). The development of an assessment tool for the bereavement needs of people with learning disabilities. British Journal Of Learning Disabilities, 36(3), 165-170. Retrieved from: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tfh&AN=33863849&site=ehost-live
development of a bereavement needs assessment tool
The aim of this article is the development of a bereavement needs assessment tool to assess the need for crisis intervention for people with learning disabilities after a family death. With the assessment tools, health professionals can make a comprehensive assessment at the bereavement time to discover the problem and a plan can be put it in action. The tool was developed with the recompilation of several collected experience over the years of supporting grieving people with learning disabilities.
The assessment tool has ten questions with sub- questions. The main points of the assessment are the practical issues, social issues, and emotional issues. The assessment tool has been tried out in three community teams and their results are being used to redefine the tool. The author will incorporate findings from research results to the assessment tool to refine the bereavement assessment. The used of the bereavement assessment toll will promote discussion and reflection among health care providers about losses in people with learning disability.
3. Ewing, G., & Grande, G. (2013). Development of a carer support needs assessment tool (CSNAT) for end-of-life care practice at home: A qualitative study. Palliative Medicine, 27(3), 244-56. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216312440607
key aspects of end of life care
The authors of this article recognized the need to assess and support the care givers that are providing end- of – life care to help them in their caring role. The purpose of this article is to collect care givers’ perception of key aspects of end of life care at home and to create a need assessment tool that can be used every day. A qualitative research method was done. Seventy five adult care givers for hospice patients we interviewed in the United Kingdom. They were divided in nine focus groups.
Twenty two participants had private interviews no more than ten minutes in duration. All participants sing their informed consent before the experiment started. The assessment tool used evaluated 14 domains of support needs within physical, practical, social, financial, physiological. And spiritual needs that the care givers may have. The experimental study identified two brad groups of support that the care givers need. The first one was to enable them to care for their relatives and the second one to have more support for them. The Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool that was used in this research is an evidence based toll to measure the care givers support needs.
