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please~need some nursing articles about diabetic foot disease and care

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Use a search engine like google, yahoo ... "nursing articles about diabetic foot disease and care" will lead you to many articles.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

these are not articles from nursing journals, but they are about the care of the foot in diabetes:

diabetic foot care

you can get a copy of a patient education booklet on foot care from this site:

http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/leap/instructionalinformation.htm just click on "patient instruction booklet". i'm a big user of cut and paste clipart and there are some nice simple pictures here you can incorporate into a teaching tool you might want to make yourself.

http://www.diabetes.org/type-2-diabetes/foot-care.jsp - foot care for diabetics from the american diabetes association. here is a page from their site on foot complications http://www.diabetes.org/for-parents-and-kids/what-is-diabetes/foot-complications.jsp

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/diabetesfootcare/htm/index.htm - this is an interactive tutorial from medline plus on diabetes foot care. i looked at the text pdf file. it had some nice color pictures on the 5 page text. it talks about how diabetes affects the feet, how to prevent foot problems, daily and regular foot care, shoes and preventing injuries.

http://ndep.nih.gov/campaigns/feet/feet_overview.htm - here is more good info from the national diabetes education program. this information is designed for lay public.

http://familydoctor.org/352.xml - there is a section on this site about choosing the right shoes

http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/list/engdiaftpr.htm - this is a 2-minute video from health roads media called "how can diabetes hurt my feet?" here is the written version: http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/files/pdf/endiaftpr.pdf

http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/files/pdf/engdiaft.pdf - is a printable one sheet text version of their little presentation on "diabetes – what can i do to take care of my feet?" these are also available in spanish.

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/complications_feet/ - this site is from the national diabetes information clearinghouse on "prevent diabetes problems: keep your feet and skin healthy".

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you can also use the CINAHL database... its great for nursing articles

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Specializes in NP / USAFR Flight Nurse.
you can also use the CINAHL database... its great for nursing articles

Love it! I can always find what I need in that database ;)

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