I've spent most of my nursing career in the Emergency Room. Not only did I need to receive report on the patients from the previous shift, but I also had to be prepared for whatever came through those ER doors next. It could be a relatively simple laceration, abdominal pain, a motor vehicle accident, or even a cardiac arrest. Every situation required a different set of skills, different supplies, and, of course, the doctor. Just like in the Emergency Room, being prepared befo

So, you have diabetes. Take a minute and think about whether or not you REALLY know what diabetes is. The true definition, not what someone has told you. Most people would say, “oh, that’s the sugar disease.” or “That’s when you have too much sugar in the blood.” These simple definitions are true but there is so much more to diabetes than that. There is a world of information out there about diabetes. Some of it is so technical that many have trouble understanding it. Much o