#317: Nursing Care for Gestational Diabetes

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Gestational diabetes is a complication of pregnancy in which individuals with no history of diabetes have persistently elevated glucose levels. In this episode you’ll learn: Normal physiology of glucose maintenance during pregnancy Who is most at risk for gestational diabetes Complications of gestational diabetes (both maternal and newborn) Signs and symptoms of gestational diabetes Key assessments for a patient with gestational diabetes Screening and ongoing tests, including the glucose tolerance test Treatments for gestational diabetes Important things to teach your patient __________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references. FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! LATTE Method Template - Download the free LATTE Method Template so you can streamline how you study and focus on what a nurse needs to know. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! __________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do I say? What do I say? What do I say? In the McMillan online community, we know what it's like to have cancer, because we have it too.
0:16.6	So whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling, whatever you need to ask about cancer, whatever the time of day or night,
0:22.0	we'll do whatever it takes to help you. To join us,
0:26.8	search McMillan online community. Well, hello there and welcome to the Straight A Nursing Podcast I'm Nurse Mo and this is where I teach
0:46.4	nursing concepts and share tips on how to thrive at the bedside and in nursing school.
0:52.8	I'm so so glad that you are here and today we're going to be talking about
0:57.0	gestational diabetes.
0:59.3	Now before we jump into that topic, I want to start us off with three stat facts. Three
1:06.5	stat facts. Are you ready? First, approximately 60% of individuals with a past history of gestational diabetes later develop type 2 diabetes.
1:18.8	Number 2, the overall rate of gestational diabetes in 2020 was 7.8 per 100
1:27.6	birth so quite a lot and that's an increase of 30% from 2016.
1:33.8	That's a huge jump in a very short amount of time.
1:37.4	And interestingly, the risk for gestational diabetes
1:41.2	increases when the individual is pregnant with multiples.
1:46.0	And stat fact number three, Gestational diabetes can cause macrosomea, is a large infant and the largest infant ever
1:55.9	born was just over 22 pounds this occurred in Italy in 1955 now that your interest is peaked and you're just dying to learn more
2:06.7	about gestational diabetes, let's dive in. So gestational diabetes is a
2:11.9	complication of pregnancy in which individuals with no history of diabetes have persistently elevated blood glucose levels.
2:21.0	Now, of course, just like with many things that we talk about here on the
2:25.6	podcast, the cause is not fully understood. Shocker, right? But what we do know is
2:31.2	that hormone changes and dysfunction of pancreatic
2:34.3	beta cells lead to an inability to regulate blood glucose levels
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