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Nurses write the blood glucose levels for diabetic patients on a scrap of paper before they chart them. In pairs, ook at the hospital mealtimes and results below and tell your partner about the patient's blood elucose results, Say whether the patient's blood glucose was too low, normal or too thigh using the chart in Exercise 3c. For example: ‘Mr Kingston-Smith’s blood sugar at 5 pm was 6.3. The normal range is 4 to 7 so that’s OK. He had a bg! of 12.4 at 9 pm. That's quite high. Patient newer Mir P Kingston-Seith I Date/Time 730 | 1230 | 17.00 | 21.00 "30/04/2004 24_[toe | 3 | a O1/05008 fafa [32 [3 {200-4315 aloha 22 [ne | es | 0 1730-1830 03/057200% as [ae | te |{ \ Chart Mr Kingston-Smith’s results on the Diabetic Chart below. Looking at his chart, how can you describe Mr Kingston-Smith’s diabetes? THE ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL © Hosp Nex $2094 i Samame RegsonSith DIABETIC CHART on sans t Date ip 0S 7 me pooh ak shnel rane aah ah elma oy oe z Es wero ketenes Hypo time Hypo. Acton ken omingst el 80 Unit 8 Helping patfents with diabetes management = —— ee Scanned with CamScann, Scanned with CamScanner

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