Discuss an approach the RN can take to assist this patient to cope with this new diagnosis that will result in understanding and compliance.

The registered nurse is caring for a patient who was just diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. As the RN begins to teach the patient about self monitoring of blood glucose, dietary considerations and insulin injections the patients states “I am not going to do this, stick myself with needles every day for the rest of my life.” Discuss an approach the RN can take to assist this patient to cope with this new diagnosis that will result in understanding and compliance. What factors would the RN need to consider? Discuss which steps of the teaching-learning process were not employed. What might have been done differently?

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