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Sophia Rowe
American College of Healthcare Sciences
Dr. Fouhy
Abstract
Forcefully diabetes management therapy and treatment desires employees to be effective
participants in their care to avoid poor function and promote independence towards employees.
Employees understanding of this will advocates the force of this actual self- management habits
and success. In my research I am going to show my readers how the impact of diabetes on our
future employees. Employees in poor physical health with a diagnosis of diabetes for a very long
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time will need extensive self-management therapy and be an active participant, work towards a
healthy lifestyles, and exercise. These employees with adequate support from families, health
care workers to improve a good health. While understanding the associations which an individual
will perceived their ability may enable the healthcare personal to focus on health education,
promotion, and maintenance treatment to the basic needs of employees with diabetes.
Introduction
Employees with sever diabetes are at potential risk for cultivated similar complications such
as blinded, neuropathy, cardiovascular disease, renal disease, stroke, and lower amputee of the
extremities. If diabetes isn’t managed well employees can be limited in specific duties and will
also become disabled, sometimes lost day from work and incur an amount of medical bills major
of our patient diagnosed with this disease is our adults and its getting even worse in the work
environment. Diabetes is a disease characterized by the blood glucose or sugar levels that has
been resulted from certain defeat in the body’s ability to make and use which this is a hormone
that helps the glucose to enter the body’s cells and to give the body its energy that it needs to
function (ADA 2005). Even though diabetes isn’t curable but it can be controlled and
maintained. Some people are very fortunate in that they can control and monitor their diabetes by
a healthy diet, maintaining a normal body weight, and definitely by regular exercising. Because
of the stress and the pressure from work, it's very difficult for a diabetic person to maintain their
sugar properly.
Some people have to maintain their diabetes by using oral medications and some used insulin
by way of injection and insulin pen. Many employees have friend to a accommodate employees
with diabetes while working , naturally workers or employees who has limited information on,
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diabetes usually feel doubtful of how to treat their employees or even coworkers with diabetes,
who have to check their glucose, manage their insulin shots, and also treat hypoglycemia all
throughout the working ( Tobias 2011). Nonetheless it isn’t unnatural for employees with
diabetes to cloak their disease from their employers and other coworker to reduce all negatives
reactions or intolerance and partiality. In this case an insulin injection maybe missed, a blood
glucose test may be forgotten and a or two maybe adjourn, therefore endanger the person entire
health and most certainly make them very unsafe to perform at a functional level. An employee
who has practice to managed their diabetes very well, and whose employer supports and
encourages diabetes management in the work place , doesn’t really cause anymore threat on
these employees to effectively operates (Breton et.al 1990).
Nevertheless it is pertinent that each employees with diabetes be well educated and know
there resources, and how well to managed and cope while at work. Certainly communication,
accurate information will encourage a healthy life style and a more productive environment.
Each person is different and with diabetes each individual requires a different treatment plan. A
treatment would requires continuous medical reviews, an exercise program and diet plan, that fits
in their work schedule as well, and other medication treatment plan (CDC 2008).
Continuous self-monitoring of an employee’s blood glucose, which includes a glucose
meter, this gives, the employees living with this diabetes disease to adapt the recommended
amount of insulin to match different activity levels, also the amount and the time and the amount
of food absorb. Normally employees with diabetes must take special precautions in their day-day
care in keeping up with their blood glucose levels from going too low are too high. These
employees should seek a health provider who specializes in diabetes and helping them manage
and maintain the glucose levels. There are certain specialist or endocrinologists who cares
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mainly for patients with diabetes, ophthalmologist for the eyes, podiatrists for the routine foot
care, and dietitians/ nutritionist and diabetes educators who specialized in teaching skills needed
for diabetes management (CDC2007).
Diabetes struggle to get help for themselves. At times many questions have been raised about
employer’s safety and effectiveness of the individual suffering with diabetes on the job. If and
when specific questions are raised, the employee with diabetes should be checked out to rule out
and to make sure that the individual is safe and will be effective at his or her particular duties on
the job. In this project I am going to furnish a broad list of guidelines for measuring certain
individuals with diabetes for working in the healthcare facilities, showing how an evaluation may
be carried out or how is it implemented and what adjustments that will be needed for individuals
struggling with diabetes in the workplace.
In years back it was standard practice to impede individuals with diabetes from doing certain
jobs or take certain classes of employment mainly because of the severity of the disease or
mainly because of the use of insulin, without taking a glance at one’s competence or the In this
case it is medically disproportionate and this would cause an employer to neglect or overlook the
many amelioration in diabetes treatment that stretch from all types of medications used to the
many different tools that can be used execute them and also to accurately guide blood glucose
levels. In my research I now realized the employment decisions is incorrect if it is solely based
on generalizations and stereotypes concerning the effects of diabetes disease. The impingement
of diabetes disease and its treatment therapies fluctuate widely amidst each individuals,
moreover, an appropriate estimation and determination of all individual candidates for
employment or modern employees must be taken into consideration.
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Method
This was an observational research design which the total amount was 7305, healthcare
participants the monitor these people for seven long years by using the national diabetes registry.
Results : in this research the participant have been monitored for years 3.5% developed diabetes
also this had been linked to sever obesity which was (HR= 6.53, 95% C l. 4.68 -9-10) severely
overweight (HR= 2.89. Cl2.11-3.96) and also high quality leadership ( HR= 1.60, Cl. 19-2.16).
An employee with obesity was mostly seen in younger employees and this was also associated
with new developing diabetes. This design was a combined data of lifestyle and employees in a
working condition with having the risk of developing diabetes by connecting large females in
health care workers in the national registry. The information is based on age, and the ethnicity
and household collected from a statistical data ( Nathan et.al 2008).
Most of the lifestyle variable has been assessed in these design activities to take into
consideration physical fitness, strength, endurance and body and other activities.
Another recent study by the researcher of fireman (2004), they have granted and evaluated
the implementation and the cost of diabetes disease management listed in the literature. In this
study the writers monitors the testing rates, they monitor the physiocology and psychological
outcomes, they implementation and also medical care cost over a period 6 year time for the
Kaiser Patients struggling with diabetes. Some results on changes in A1C levels weren’t
reported. In this case some of the patient who suffers with diabetes were matched to the patients
who didn’t have diabetes during the same times. The results shows that diabetes patients shows a
higher percentage lower or just a smaller increase to related comparison group.
Discussion
The final study over the period of 7 years shows that both lifestyles and occupational risk
facts amongst healthcare workers has developed diabetes. One other important risk factor that
has been the main focus was the BMI, this was above the normal value. At a certain baseline for
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obesity and employees who is severely overweight, shows a very low level of exercise, poor selfrelated physical fitness, long shift work and other problems with health and sleep (ADA 2004).
Normally the day- to day monitoring and management of diabetes in the work place for
certain employees which is crucial to seek modifications for long- term diabetes- related
complications. Certain patients with diabetes usually remains productive employees especially if
the appropriate recommendations are implemented nevertheless employees with diabetic
retinopathy or other vision impairments may benefits from computers which have very large
prints or big screen or other visual aids, while are other employees with nerve pain may benefits
from decreased walking distances or they should have the ability to sit down while working.
Also employees with kidney problems should have stored time to take off work for dialysis
treatment (fireman B, Bartlett 2004).
Most times it is very hard to provide and promote a list of things that you can accommodate.
The one good things for patients with diabetes is to make sure that the adjustment are monitored
to the employees and that they are effective in making sure that the employees execute his or her
to the best of their ability and safely. If there should be any question about an employee, with
diabetes for any specific job, a professional healthcare personnel who is well training in diabetes
education should assess that particular individual, this assessment should take place before an
employer decide to make any decision concerning this matter. If the professional is comfortable
with person who has diabetes and she is well training in treating diabetes this could be the best
person to carry out the assessment.
These employees with diabetes are not crippled, they can go to serve in the highest
productive form of the workforce, nonetheless, not everyone with diabetes can perform every
available job, and for, this there are modifications and certain accommodations that can be made
to permit these individuals to effectively perform their duties (Breton et al. 2013). Employers
must take into considerations the needs of all persons, each needs are different and requires a lot
or even minimum preparation. Employees with diabetes should also be monitored and receive
evaluation separately from an experienced diabetes health professionals
Recommendation
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For people with diabetes they should be checked personally for employment based on the
recommendation of the particular job and also their medical background, their treatment
regimen, and their medical history (American Diabetes Association 2005). I also believe that
when one should ask about the medical fitness of a diabetic employee for a specific job, the
health care provider who should be an expert in treating diabetes should provide an
individualized workup on this employee, and also input from the physician should be
recommended. These employees should be evaluated based on adequate and applicable medical
data and should never be made exclusively on a single piece of data. According to the guidelines
and the strict protocols, this can be very helpful in making accurate decisions about an employee
if these tools are used in objective ways and is solely established on the most recent scientific
knowledge and the diabetes and its management. Improving the safety and the risk for these
employees with diabetes involves and regulates the concerns that are acceptable in light of the
job duties the employees must perform.
In my research I find that most employees with diabetes can maintain their condition in such
a way that there is no risk of sudden awkwardness on the job (Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990). Health professionals speaks on proper safety and assessments, this should incorporate
and keep a report of the employees blood glucose test results, and complete history of severe
attacks, and the presence of other related complications which could include urine glucose or
A1C/eAG tests or this could be based on other assessment of blood sugar control. Also in my
research I have found that the equal employees opportunity commission (EEOC), they have
provided a particular page where employees with diabetes can get all their questions answered
about diabetes in the workplace. This is available online on eeoc.gov.
Conclusion
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This project is based on managing diabetes through different channel which is geared towards
information, monitoring, personalization, communication, and technology. I think that a
successful diabetes management system should include all of these dimensions. Employees with
diabetes can usually seem as productive members of the workforce. However not everyone with
diabetes can be qualified for or can usually perform for all the jobs that are available there are
certain recommendations that can be easily made which will permit an increasingly amount of
employees with diabetes to perform naturally and adequately.
The different therapies and treatment that are most effective for employees varies greatly from
employees to employees, so the employers should take into consideration each employees
capacities and their needs on an individual basis. In this case employees with diabetes should
always be evaluated in an individual level. With as clinical or professional diabetic health care
provider and base on each employee’s needs. . I think that a successful diabetes management
system should include all of these dimensions. Employees with diabetes can usually seem as
productive members of the workforce. However not everyone with diabetes can be qualified for
or can usually perform for all the jobs that are available there are certain recommendations that
can be easily made which will permit an increasingly amount of employees with diabetes to
perform naturally and adequately. Employees with diabetes can and do maintain as highly
productive members of the job (CDC and Prevention 2007).
While not all employees with this condition can be qualified for type of work, or can manage
with the stress of the wear and the tears of the daily task, reasonable recommendations can be
made, this will gives the vast majority of employees with this condition a way to effectively
perform. Employees with diabetes may need storage for medications, such as insulin and food
storage, employers should also provide an area for blood sugar testing, and a place for
needles/syringe disposal, employees should take frequent breaks for food as needed.
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