Managing diabetes requires daily attention-monitoring blood glucose, taking medications or insulin, watching your diet, staying active, and preventing complications. It can feel overwhelming, especially if you’re newly diagnosed, dealing with changing insulin requirements, or managing diabetes alongside other health conditions.
Our Registered Nurses provide professional diabetes care in your home, supporting you to manage blood glucose levels effectively, understand your condition, prevent complications, and maintain the quality of life you deserve. We work alongside your doctor and diabetes educator to provide coordinated, comprehensive diabetes support.
Getting Started with Diabetes Nursing Care
Have questions?
Your local team of Client Care Managers are available to answer your questions and work with you to design a customized plan of care that is right for you.
Our Diabetes Management Services
Blood Glucose Monitoring:
Regular blood glucose testing during visits, teaching you to test independently if needed, identifying patterns in glucose levels, helping you understand what affects your levels, coordinating with doctor about glucose control.
Insulin Administration:
For people who cannot self-inject insulin, we provide insulin injections according to prescribed schedule, proper injection technique, rotating injection sites, monitoring for injection site problems.
Medication Management:
Supporting oral diabetes medication routine, educating about diabetes medications, monitoring medication effectiveness, watching for side effects, coordinating with doctor and pharmacist.
Diabetes Education:
Teaching about diabetes and blood glucose control, explaining how food, activity, stress, and illness affect glucose, guidance on healthy eating for diabetes, understanding hypo and hyperglycemia, when to seek medical help.
Foot Care Assessment:
Regular foot checks for problems (cuts, blisters, infections, circulation issues), education about proper foot care, arranging podiatry if needed, working to help prevent diabetic foot complications.
Complication Monitoring:
Watching for signs of diabetes complications (circulation problems, nerve damage, vision changes, kidney function), coordinating screening tests with doctor, early intervention if problems identified.
Sick Day Management:
Guidance about managing diabetes during illness, monitoring glucose more frequently when unwell, preventing diabetic emergencies, knowing when to seek medical help.
Coordination with Healthcare Team:
Working with your GP or endocrinologist, liaising with diabetes educator, coordinating with podiatrist, eye specialist, other specialists, ensuring integrated care.
Insulin Administration Support
For people requiring insulin who cannot self-inject:
Working to Prevent Diabetes Complications
Diet and Lifestyle with Diabetes
While we’re nurses, not dietitians, we provide general guidance:
Healthy Eating:
Understanding how carbohydrates affect blood glucose, eating regular meals, choosing whole grains, vegetables, lean protein, limiting sugary foods and drinks, portion awareness.
Physical Activity:
Understanding how exercise lowers blood glucose, starting with achievable activity, checking glucose before/after exercise, preventing exercise-related hypos.
Weight Management:
If weight loss would help glucose control, supporting healthy approaches, connecting you with dietitian if needed.
Stress Management:
Understanding stress can raise blood glucose, strategies for managing stress, recognizing when additional support needed.
Sleep:
Understanding importance of good sleep for glucose control, identifying sleep problems, strategies for better sleep.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Gratifying Care is proud to committed to offer the best possible answers to all your questions. We have compiled a list of few questions that have been repeatedly asked to us.
Can you teach me to give my own insulin injections?
Yes, if you’re able and willing to learn. We teach injection technique, site rotation, safe insulin handling, how to adjust for dose changes. We provide supervised practice and ongoing support until you’re confident. Even after you’re independent, we continue monitoring.
What if my blood glucose levels aren’t controlled?
We work with your doctor to identify why. This might involve more frequent glucose testing, reviewing medication timing and doses, identifying patterns (time of day, relation to meals), assessing diet and activity, checking medication adherence. We communicate findings to your doctor who may adjust your treatment.
Can you help me if I’m newly diagnosed?
Yes. New diabetes diagnosis is overwhelming. We provide education about diabetes, teach glucose monitoring, support medication routine, help you understand dietary changes, coordinate with diabetes educator, provide ongoing support as you adjust.
Do I need to see a diabetes educator too?
Ideally, yes. Diabetes educators provide specialized diabetes education that complements our nursing care. We work together-they provide detailed education, we provide ongoing practical support and monitoring.
What if I can’t afford diabetes supplies?
We can’t fund supplies ourselves, but we can help you access subsidy schemes (NDSS – National Diabetes Services Scheme provides subsidized testing strips and other supplies), discuss with doctor about affordable medication options, connect you with assistance programs.
Can you come multiple times daily for insulin?
Yes, if you require multiple daily insulin injections and cannot self-inject. We schedule visits to match your insulin regimen. However, this requires significant visit frequency, so we also assess whether you or a family member could learn to give some injections.
What about Type 1 diabetes in children?
While we primarily work with adults, we can support older children/teenagers with Type 1 diabetes if they need nursing support with insulin, monitoring, education. We coordinate closely with pediatric endocrinology teams.
How do you help prevent foot problems?
Regular foot checks at each visit, teaching you daily foot care, identifying problems early (cuts, blisters, calluses, circulation issues), ensuring you have proper footwear, arranging podiatry when needed, working to help prevent serious complications through early intervention.
What if I’m having trouble understanding diabetes?
That’s common and we’re here to help. We provide education at your pace, in language you understand, repeat information as needed, use visual aids and demonstrations, involve family if you wish, coordinate with diabetes educator for additional support.
How quickly can diabetes nursing start?
Often within 2-3 days for routine situations. For urgent needs (new diagnosis, hospitalization, insulin needed immediately), we prioritize arranging services as quickly as possible, sometimes within 24 hours.
Medical Disclaimer
The information on this page is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Clinical nursing services are delivered by qualified Registered Nurses working within their scope of practice and in coordination with your doctor and healthcare team. Always consult your GP or specialist about your specific health needs and treatment. Our nursing services complement but do not replace medical care from your doctor.