Diabetes

[klynnxoo]

New to this site! Was wondering if anyone had any helpful tips with studying diabetes, thyroid, and endocrine system?

[Bess87]

the 'Incredibly Easy!' line of books is excellent.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

The American Diabetes Assoc has a lot of great patient teaching materials, and you can learn a lot from them. Ask your local CDE, certified diabetes educator, an RN, at the hospital or call an endocrinologist's office to ask if you can come see some of their patient teaching materials.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Somequick notes.......

hypokalemia: muscle weakness, dysrhythmias, increase k (raisins, bananas, apricots, oranges, beans, potatoes, carrots, celery)

hyperkalemia: murder – muscle weakness, urine (oliguria/anuria), respiratory depression, decreased cardiac contractility, ecg changes, reflexes

hyponatremia: nausea, muscle cramps, increased icp, muscular twitching, convulsion; osmotic diuretics, fluids

hypernatremia: increased temp, weakness, disorientation/delusions, hypotension, tachycardia; hypotonic solution

hypocalcemia: cats – convulsions, arrhythmias, tetany, spasms and stridor

hypercalcemia: muscle weakness, lack of coordination, abdominal pain, confusion, absent tendon reflexes, sedative effect on cns

hypomg: tremors, tetany, seizures, dyrshythmias, depression, confusion, dysphagia; dig toxicity

hypermg: depresses the cns, hypotension, facial flushing, muscle ewakness, absent deep tendon reflexes, shallow respirations, emergency

addison’s: hypoNA, hyperk, hypoglycemia, dark pigmentation, decreased resistance to stress, fractures, alopecia, weight loss, gi distress

cushings: hyperna, hypok, hyperglycemia, prone to infection, muscle wasting, weakness, edema, htn, hirsutism, moonface/buffalo hump

addisonian crisis: n/v, confusion, abdominal pain, extreme weakness, hypoglycemia, dehydration, decreased bp

pheochromocytoma: hypersecretion of epi/norepi, persistent htn, increased hr, hyperglycemia, diaphoresis, tremor, pounding ha; avoid stress, frequent bating and rest breaks, avoid cold and stimulating foods, surgery to remove tumor

here are some good resource sites.

Endocrine Diseases: thyroid, parathyroid adrenal and diabetes - EndocrineWeb

http://www.snjourney.com/ClinicalInf.../Endocrine.htm

http://freenursetutor.com/topics-to-...ne-system.html free

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/anato...article_em.htm

[chibiRN]

I have a couple of really great recorded lectures on these topics that helped me quite a bit with NCLEX. They are by no means the end all be all but helpful in recognizing signs/symptoms. PM me with your email address if you want them =)