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Diabetes

It’s important to keep your blood sugar controlled, because when too much sugar stays in your blood for a long time, it can damage nerves and blood vessels.

Alot of the food we eat is turned into sugar in the blood for our bodies to use for energy. A hormone produced by the pancreas called insulin helps sugar in our blood get into the cells of our bodies. If your body can't make enough insulin or if the insulin doesn’t work the way it should, blood sugar can’t get into your cells and instead stays in your blood, raising your blood sugar level.

Management of your type 2 diabetes includes:

• Using your medicines as your doctor prescribes
• Making smart food choices using the food pyramid
• Being physically active and integrate exercise in your daily routine

All 3 of these steps contribute to blood sugar management and therefore the management of your type 2 diabetes. Managing your type 2 diabetes is a goal whose importance is hard to exaggerate.

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Government sponsored diabetes education programs
Research about ways to manage type 2 diabetes
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Assessing the health needs of a community is a very integral part of the community nurse

The history of community nursing

Modern community health nursing can trace its history to England and New York. The community was divided into districts and served by a nurse. Florence Nightingale developed the idea of home nursing and visiting the sick at home. Lilian Ward established what was known as the "House on Henry Street" which became the Visiting Nurse Association. The work of nursing pioneers like Nightingale and Ward laid the foundations of Community Health nursing as it is today.

Roskowski, J.,(2010) The history of community nursing: Retrieved April 6, 2011 from: http://www.ehow.com/about_6534870_history-community-nursing.html

Your Community

A strong community is a good community that enhances the populations health as a whole.
Are you doing what you can for your community? List one thing you are doing to give back to your community.

education can be fun

Innovative ways to integrate comunity health nursing into all setting of care

Students have opportunities to talk with patients and families in an outpatient cancer treatment center about their treatment and illnesses. Students in Schools of Nursing are required to take a required amount of comprehensive clinical practicum and many agencies have opportunites for students to learn certain aspects of community services.

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Community Nursing

Free blood pressure screenings available at the community center. All welcome. Handouts provided.

Hypertension

High blood pressure; HBP; Blood pressure - high

Last reviewed: July 29, 2010.

Hypertension is the term used to describe high blood pressure.
Blood pressure is a measurement of the force against the walls of your arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body.
Blood pressure readings are measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg) and usually given as two numbers -- for example, 120 over 80 (written as 120/80 mmHg). One or both of these numbers can be too high.
The top number is your systolic pressure.

• It is considered high if it is over 140 most of the time.
• It is considered normal if it is below 120 most of the time.

The bottom number is your diastolic pressure.

• It is considered high if it is over 90 most of the time.
• It is considered normal if it is below 80 most of the time.

Pre-hypertension may be considered when your:

• Top number (systolic blood pressure) is between 120 and 139 most of the time, or
• Bottom number (diastolic blood pressure) is between 80 and 89 most of the time

If you have pre-hypertension, you are more likely to develop high blood pressure.
If you have heart or kidney problems, or if you had a stroke, your doctor may want your blood pressure to be even lower than that of people who do not have these conditions.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001502/