You are expecting a new service user who has Diabetes. Your manager has asked you to present a training session on diabetes to help other team members understand it and enable the best support for the new service user.

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You are expecting a new service user who has Diabetes. Your manager has asked you to present a training session on diabetes to help other team members understand it and enable the best support for the new service user.

Unit 14: Diabetes Awareness

Activity Brief					HSC		Number	12
Task Type:	Assignment	Level:	4	Pathway:		ALL	Date reviewed:	23/08/2023
Task Name:	Unit 14: Diabetes Awareness

Description of Task:

A presentation to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding.

Scope of Task
The following areas are to be covered / discussed / referred to in your answers:
Causes of Diabetes Hypoglycaemia and Hyperglycaemia Principles of a balanced diet Policies and procedures Person centred care
Values Equality Diversity Inclusion Health and safety	Core Skills Communication Literacy I.T
British Values: Democracy Rule of law Freedom of speech Mutual respect Tolerance of each other	Legislation: The Care Act 2014 The Equality Act 2010 The Human Rights Act 1998 Data Protection Act 2018

Activity Resources

Additional resources

Websites:

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/Type-1-diabetes

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/diabetes/

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-diabetes.html

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/professionals/position-statements-reports/statistics

Task Questions

Complete the following assignment.
Please read the guide at the bottom of the brief to support you.
There is a list of useful websites at the end of the brief.
Please also refer to the unit amplification on the standards sent to you when joining the course.
This activity brief covers knowledge only.

PART 1

You are expecting a new service user who has Diabetes.

Your manager has asked you to present a training session on diabetes to help other team members understand it and enable the best support for the new service user.

Using a presentation method of your choice, you need to cover:

A definition of Diabetes.
Describe key features of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
Describe the most common causes of both, highlighting the possible risk factors that may lead to Type 2.
Describe the likely symptoms of each type and the long-term complications.
Prevalence rates.
Give an explanation of Hypoglycaemia and Hyperglycaemia.
Describe your workplace procedure for dealing with both.
Explain the principles of a balanced diet.
Describe at length, how carbohydrates affect blood glucose levels.
Describe your organisational procedure for testing blood glucose levels, state the normal parameters.
Explain why it is important to measure blood pressure and the normal parameters.
Explain why it is important to monitor urine output.
Describe how different individuals may manage their condition differently and how it may impact on them in different ways.
Discuss how attitudes and behaviours can impact on individuals, both their own and the attitudes of others.
Explain how to avoid conflict and discrimination. For example: how would you deal with an individual asking for cake when it is packed with sugar?

a) Describe how you would support your Duty of Care.

b) Offering alternative.

c) Making cakes that suit the needs of all.

16. Describe your organisational procedure for referring individuals to other professionals, for additional support.

17. Describe the annual checks needed to screen for long-term complications.

PART 2

Continue your presentation:

18) Define person-centred care.

19) Explain the importance of good care planning.

20) Explain the individual’s care plan and how important it is to manage nutrition.

21) Explain care pathways used for newly diagnosed diabetics.

22) Explain the self-care need for both types and explain how to work with an individual, and or their carer, to optimise self-care skills

23) Explain informed choice and why it is important to help individuals make informed choices.

24) Explain how individuals can be supported to manage their diabetes by managing their lifestyle.

25) Explain the links between diabetes and:

a) Dementia

b) Depression

c) Pregnancy.

Assignment Guide

For this assignment, we would like you to research your answers in full and put together a presentation.

PowerPoint is ideal but please use your preferred method.

The diabetes UK website provide most of the information that you need for this assignment:

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/

Referencing

This guide shows you how to reference your work. The examples used within it are just to demonstrate how to reference. The web links in red give more guidance on referencing.

Referencing, is an important skill to learn if you are completing an academic programme in the United Kingdom. Clear and structured referencing allows the Assessor or Verifier to access your research sources and review them themselves, helps to protect you against claims of plagiarism, and provides evidence of your external research.

We have included below a list of the main sources of information for your work, but please feel free to locate information via other sources if possible and relevant. Once you have your resources, there are many different ways to reference them, but the style preferred for your QCF Diploma is the Harvard Referencing Style; examples and instructions on how to do this are listed below. For a complete list of how to use the Harvard Referencing System, you can purchase a book or look at one of the many excellent downloadable instruction systems online, such as the De Montfort University guide available for free online at: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf.

Some websites, for example; Neil’s Toolbox (http://www.neilstoolbox.com/), offer free tools such as the Harvard Reference Generator.

Basic Guide to using the Harvard Referencing System

Always show when you have used a quote by placing it in speech marks: “...................”
Short quotes can be used mid-paragraph, but longer ones should be given a line of their own as well as being shown in speech marks. It is also common to italicise the longer quote.
This brief quote can be “used mid-paragraph” (Cox, 2010) without any problem
“but longer ones should be given a line of their own as well as being shown in speech marks” (Cox, 2010).
The name of the original author, researcher, etc. and the date of publication should be given in brackets at the end of each quote: (D Cox, 2010) or (Cox, 2010).
The content of a quote will not be included within the mark of an essay, though the relevancy of the quote will. You can copy the meaning of someone else’s work without copying their words by rewriting their work as your own. Paraphrasing is a good way to demonstrate understanding and have the content marked, but remember that the paragraph must include the author’s details.
‘In 2010, Miss D Cox stated that....’ or their name and date, i.e. (Cox, 2010).
The reference list at the end of your activity must be in alphabetical order. This makes it easy to find a particular reference from the text.

“In the UK many people were not aware of HIV until the mid-80s as it had received little coverage in the press and what it had received falsely branded it a gay disease (bbc.co.uk). Throughout the 80’s and early 90s, despite the evidence to the contrary – including the deaths and diagnoses of haemophiliacs and drug users with AIDS – the papers still branded it as the ‘gay plague’ and, in the Sun’s case, the ‘gay bug’. (avert.org 2009)” avert.org, (2009) History of HIV and AIDS in the UK 1981-1995. Accessed online 09.05.2009 at http://www.avert.org/uk-AIDS-history.htm

BBC.co.uk, Mystery disease kills homosexuals. Accessed online 09.05.2009 at http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/10/newsid_4020000/4020391.stm

Beharrell, P (1993) ‘AIDS and the British Press’, in J. Eldridge (ed.) Getting the Message: News Truth an....”

Examples of the main types of references

Websites (the website address should be underlined).

Author or Source, Year. Title. Available at: web site address/URL and [Accessed date].

National Society for Epilepsy. 2008. Epilepsy - did you know ...? [Online] (Updated 16 Jan 2005). Available at: http://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/AboutEpilepsy/Whatisepilepsy/Epilepsy-didyouknow [Accessed 10 April 2010].

Books: Author, Initials/first name. Year. Title of book. Edition (if stated). Place: Publisher.

Appleton, R. and Marson, T. 2009. Epilepsy (The Facts). 3rd ed. Oxford: Epilepsy Action in assoc. with Oxford University Press.

Journals: Author, Initials. Year. Title of article. Full Title of Journal, Volume number (Issue/Part number), Page numbers.

You are expecting a new service user who has Diabetes. Your manager has asked you to present a training session on diabetes to help other team members understand it and enable the best support for the new service user.

Unit 14: Diabetes Awareness

Activity Resources

Task Questions

PART 1

PART 2

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