Educação conscientizadora do idoso diabético: uma proposta de intervenção do enfermeiro

Aposentados com diabetes tipo 2 na Saúde da Família em Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo - Brasil

“…Knowledge can be internalized by means of adjustments that take into consideration individual aspects as well as the social environment in which the elderly individuals live. The health service should consider the need for a user-center approach that promotes autonomy, opportunity and time, providing moments for thinking about their experience as someone with diabetes and encouraging them toward participating of the diagnosis and treatment (16) . The referred practices are close to the everyday practice of the Family Health Strategy, which has as one of its most important purposes to come closer to service users and their context.…”

A proposta da educação permanente em saúde na atualização da equipe de saúde em diabetes mellitus

“…Based on the recovery and reconstruction of knowledge, it was possible to broaden the discussion about the performance of the different health professionals in the prevention of the disease, the care given to the user with Diabetes at the health unit and the importance of the community participation in the elaboration of strategies for the promotion of healthy life habits (4)(5)(6) .…”

“…It aims at the educational practice that is oriented by the daily routine of the services, starting from the critical reflection about the problems regarding the care quality, assuring the collective participation -multiprofessional and interdisciplinary, favoring the construction of new knowledge and the exchange of experiences; and representing the effort of changing the public health network into a teaching-learning space in the work execution. Besides, it allows to question the educational actions in Diabetes that must be changed in order to improve the practice of health professionals who work in the educational program in Diabetes, enabling them to build health actions that lead users to think about their disease and self-manage their care (4)(5) .…”

“…Some authors (5)(6) add that educational programs in Diabetes, developed by updated health professionals, contribute to the decrease in hospitalizations and to the system users, who start to identify the diseases, to adopt measures for the reduction of risk factors and to receive a treatment that is capable of helping the changes in the behavior associated to the eating pattern and the increase of physical activity for the control of the disease and improvement of life quality.…”

Assistência de enfermagem a um paciente portador de Diabetes Mellitus

“…Para Tavares e Rodrigues (1) , atualmente, vivencia-se um aumento tanto na expectativa de vida, quanto na maior incidência das doenças crônicas não-transmissíveis. Considera-se fundamental que os profissionais de saúde, em especial os enfermeiros, direcionem a sua prática profissional para ações que levem à independência, à autonomia e à qualidade de vida dos idosos.…”