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FP6011_Assessment1_1.docx FP6011 Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Narrative Capella University Evidence-Based Practice for Patient-Centered Care and Population Health Evidence-Based Patient-Center... ed Narrative Carole Lund is a forty-four-year-old woman of Native American and European descent. Carole is a new mother who is concerned about not recovering from gestational diabetes. Carole was diagnosed with gestational diabetes at thirty weeks gestation. Carole Lund is ten weeks postpartum. Carole has been tracking her blood glucose with fasting results of 150-200 and greater than 200 after meals. During her pregnancy, Carole was offered insulin however, she did not want to take a drug or inject an animal product into her body. Carole elected to make lifestyle and dietary changes instead. Nursing Diagnosis One The most important diagnosis to address is the patient™s risk for unstable blood glucose. Women who have gestational diabetes are ten times more likely to develop type two diabetes in a ten-year time frame compared to women who were not diagnosed with gestational diabetes, according to a retrospective study in Sri Lanka (Herath et al., 2017). Carole has nonmodifiable risk factors that increase the risk of developing type two diabetes postpartum. Carole has a maternal age over thirty-five and delivered a baby over three and a half kilograms. With these nonmodifiable risk factors, Carole must modify her lifestyle factors to decrease her likelihood of developing type two diabetes. Modifiable fac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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