Review Article
Year: 2021 | Month: August | Volume: 8 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 51-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210809
Role of a Nurse in Preventing the Diabetic Foot Storm
Mandira Gope1, Ashok Dhanwal2
1Assistant Professor, Rajarajeswari College of Nursing, Bangalore.
2Professor, M G College of Nursing, Delhi.
Corresponding Author: Mandira Gope
ABSTRACT
Diabetes mellitus is a common epidemic and metabolic condition worldwide, which needs serious concern to avoid major complication. Out of several complications diabetic foot ulcer is the impenetrable one. ‘Amit Jain’ from India has classified 6 categories of diabetic foot problems and describes the pathway towards the diabetic foot storm (Apoorva H C & Jain A K C, 2020). These categories and pathway is beneficial to construct preventive plan of action to detain diabetic foot storm. Diabetic foot storm encompasses different problem combined with diabetic foot condition. Nurses are playing vital role in every health care sector. They can save this storm with the knowledge of diabetic foot storm, pathway and different preventive strategies includes education, screening, awareness camping.
Keywords: Diabetic foot, Storm, Strategies, Prevention, Epidemic.
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