Do you use your glucometer as much as you should at home? Now, I am talking to type 2 diabetics for the most part, not insulin dependent type 1. I often think while at work, “why are we checking patient’s blood sugars 4 times a day if we aren’t covering them with insulin”? Being on a cardiac floor, most of our patients get tight insulin control, but there is the 30% that we seem to be sticking just to stick.
I also know that I check my own sugar 3 times a day, but if I am …read more