Creating an educational brochure. Producing an educational voice-over PowerPoint presentation or video focusing on your topic. Creating a teaching plan for your patient, family, or group. Recommending work process or workflow changes addressing your topic. Plan to spend at least three direct practicum hours working with the same patient, family, or group.

Patient Family or Population Health Problem Solution

Diabetes mellitus impacts the quality of care and treatment costs. This paper discusses the impact of leadership and change management on addressing type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Also, it discusses effective strategies for communication and collaboration. Furthermore, it identifies nursing standards and government policies that impact the management of type 2 DM and explores the use of healthcare technology to manage type 2 DM.

Leadership and Change Management

Leadership and change management strategies impact the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus. To begin with, relevant leadership strategies include open communication, effective delegation of tasks, decisiveness, and shared decision-making (UAGC.edu, 2022). Open communication enables leaders to share information with team members. For instance, open communication will enable leaders to share the goals and objectives of DM management with members of the interdisciplinary team. By so doing, the teams will work harmoniously to achieve these goals (Zainol et al., 2021). Also, open communication will enable the interdisciplinary team to establish a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families. This will optimize the management of DM by allowing patients to take part in the treatment process. Effective delegation of tasks and shared decision-making promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the management of type 2 DM (Zainol et al., 2021). Decisiveness enables team members to select and implement the best interventions to manage type 2 DM.

Krakoff (n.d.) reports that change management embraces strategies such as planning, upholding transparency and truthfulness, effective communication, regular training, and evaluation. These strategies are key to the management of DM. Adequate planning enables the interdisciplinary team to select the best intervention to address each patient’s unique needs. Also, it facilitates the delegation of tasks among team members. Transparency and truthfulness enable the interdisciplinary team to involve patients and their families in the selection of their interventions (Krakoff, n.d.). This acknowledges that patients are autonomous stakeholders in the treatment process. As stated earlier, effective communication enables the team to share their goals and establish therapeutic relationships with patients. Consistently, training will ensure that all team members demonstrate adequate competency, whereas evaluation will assess the impact of the intervention on the patient’s well-being.

Nursing ethics guided the implementation of my intervention. To begin with, I acknowledged and respected the preferences of the patient and her family. This is harmonious with the ethical principle of autonomy (Varkey, 2021). Also, I minimized potential risks emanating from my intervention. In this context, the intervention adopts evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions that improve patient outcomes. This is consistent with the ethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence (Varkey, 2021). Furthermore, I upheld fairness and justice when formulating the intervention.

Communication and Collaboration Strategies

The patient is a seventy-year-old American Indian female. She is a known diabetic patient diagnosed with the disease three decades ago. The patient is brought by her spouse and daughter. Physical examination reveals a weak pulse, lethargy, confusion, and dry mucous membranes. Her respiratory rate is 28 breaths per minute. Further workup reveals plasma glucose levels of 37.0 mmol/L, bicarbonate levels of 17 mEq/L, and a serum osmolality of 335 mOsm/kg. These are manifestations of hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS). The patient is started on intravenous fluid resuscitation, and a plan for insulin therapy is initiated.

I selected type 2 diabetes mellitus as the focus of my capstone project because the disease is the most common type of diabetes mellitus. For instance, it accounts for about 90 percent of all cases of DM (CDC.gov, 2022). Also, the disease has a significant economic impact. The USA spends more than $320 annually to manage the disease (CDC.gov, 2022). Type 2 DM is relevant to nursing practice. Nursing training equips them with relevant knowledge and skills to facilitate screening, diagnosis, formulation of a care plan, and patient education.

Patient and family engagement optimizes the management of diabetes mellitus. It enables healthcare providers to understand the preferences, needs, and beliefs of their patients. By so doing, holistic care and patient-centeredness are achieved (AHRQ.gov, n.d.-a). Furthermore, it provides an opportunity for patient education and increases the likelihood of adherence to the treatment plan (AHRQ.gov, n.d.-a). Adherence to the treatment plan