Caring for Type 1 Diabetic Children in Daycare : a guidebook for daycare workers
Teiniranta, Kristina; Saarinen, Jacqueline (2023)
2023
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Finland has the highest case of type 1 diabetic in children in the world. Every year there is 500 new cases of type 1 diabetes in children under 15 in Finland. This makes it an important issue for people in Finland who care for children to understand how to care for type 1 diabetes.
Young children from infancy to the age of 6 in Finland can attend daycare. This makes it an important issue for the daycare workers in Finland to understand how to care for type 1 diabetes. Daycare workers who care for children with type 1 diabetes need to know basic information like monitoring blood sugars, insulin therapy, carbohydrate counting, hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia.
This bachelor thesis is aimed at providing a guidebook to daycare workers about how to care for children with type 1 diabetes. The purpose of this thesis is to increase knowledge of the workers in daycares in caring for a child with type 1 diabetes. This knowledge will allow the workers in daycares to take better care of children’s diabetes while they are in the daycare.
The authors used evidence-based materials from different reliable sources for the information in the thesis. The thesis was done according to the LAB thesis guidelines. The guidebook was prepared according to the criterion of a good guidebook.
The thesis was a practice-based thesis and used the Plan, So, Study and Act model. An interview was done with a daycare worker to assess the usefulness of the guidebook.
The guidebook information is useful to daycare workers in caring for children with type 1 diabetes. The topic is an important topic because of the prevalence of type 1 diabetes in children in Finland.
Young children from infancy to the age of 6 in Finland can attend daycare. This makes it an important issue for the daycare workers in Finland to understand how to care for type 1 diabetes. Daycare workers who care for children with type 1 diabetes need to know basic information like monitoring blood sugars, insulin therapy, carbohydrate counting, hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia.
This bachelor thesis is aimed at providing a guidebook to daycare workers about how to care for children with type 1 diabetes. The purpose of this thesis is to increase knowledge of the workers in daycares in caring for a child with type 1 diabetes. This knowledge will allow the workers in daycares to take better care of children’s diabetes while they are in the daycare.
The authors used evidence-based materials from different reliable sources for the information in the thesis. The thesis was done according to the LAB thesis guidelines. The guidebook was prepared according to the criterion of a good guidebook.
The thesis was a practice-based thesis and used the Plan, So, Study and Act model. An interview was done with a daycare worker to assess the usefulness of the guidebook.
The guidebook information is useful to daycare workers in caring for children with type 1 diabetes. The topic is an important topic because of the prevalence of type 1 diabetes in children in Finland.