Part 2 of this book deals with the application of teaching and learning

principles to individuals dealing with diabetes throughout the life span.

One size does not fit all, and so-called canned teaching sessions without
assessing the individual needs of each client will fail in most cases. Nurses
teach every time they walk into a clients room. Your patient and his or
her family watch you and listen to your every word. What is it that they are
getting out of their experience with you? If you ask good questions, adapt
your care accordingly, and teach to meet their stated needs, they perceive
that you really care. The clients and their families are more likely to be
empowered to learn about this condition and its treatment and work at
self-management. If you treat them like any other patient with diabetes,
they may well be turned off by your perceived indifference and either go it
alone or become noncompliant. Nurses have more power to effect change
than we can possibly imagine. It is my hope that Part 2 will awaken or
encourage the ideals that lead you to nursing school in the first place. True,
there is a long-standing nursing shortage. However, the long hours and
overwork cannot beat these ideals out of you unless you allow them to. Let
the chapters in Part 2 of this book help you to develop new strategies for
really making a difference in peoples lives.