{"id":5629,"date":"2007-05-04T18:12:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2007-05-04T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T18:12:48","slug":"uri-nursing-pharmacy-students-learn-from-each-other-about-treatment-care-of-patients-with-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2007\/05\/04\/uri-nursing-pharmacy-students-learn-from-each-other-about-treatment-care-of-patients-with-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"URI nursing, pharmacy students learn from each other about treatment, care of patients with diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laura Daley, left, of Coventry, a fifth-year pharmacy student and Liara Silva of North Providence, a junior nursing student, watch Marisa Santos, a junior nursing student from Tiverton, draw saline into a syringe to simulate an insulin injection during a joint learning experience between the College of Nursing and the College of Pharmacy in White Hall. URI News Bureau photo by Joe Giblin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A patient with diabetes seeks an alternative to insulin injections.<\/h3>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2007 -So a new inhaler that provides a painless alternative is the answer, right?
\nIt isn\u2019t if the patient has severe arthritis and trouble with dexterity. It might not be an alternative for a patient with memory or concentration issues either because it is a complex device with many preparation steps.
\nThat was just one topic as University of Rhode Island nursing and pharmacy students joined for the first time to share their knowledge and different perspectives on caring for patients with diabetes. This spring, 100 fifth-year pharmacy students and 75 junior nursing students participated in the cross-disciplinary program.
\nAt four separate stations, they learned about different methods for checking blood-sugar levels and insulin delivery methods such as traditional insulin injections, insulin pens, and insulin powder inhalers. Nursing students gave pharmacy students injections of saline to simulate insulin shots while pharmacy students and faculty led small group sessions on different medication delivery and monitoring systems.
\nCelia MacDonnell <\/a>of Newport, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy, and Mary Lavin of Middletown, clinical assistant professor of nursing, said the students gained awareness of the benefits of teamwork.
\n\u201cWe tell our students in our respective colleges to work as a team with other health care professionals, but we haven\u2019t been able to foster that in an interactive setting that brings together students from each discipline,\u201d MacDonnell said. \u201cWe have been trying to do this for years, but it has been very difficult because of the off-campus clinical demands on both groups of students. But we can\u2019t expect people to be a team if they have never worked together as students.\u201d
\nLavin found in her informal conversations with students that they were pleased with the exercise. \u201cThe nursing students found the student pharmacists to be very knowledgeable about the medication, the drugs\u2019 effects and their side effects,\u201d Lavin said. \u201cThe nursing students were also excited about sharing their knowledge about glucose monitoring and insulin injection techniques, especially the information that pharmacists could use to educate patients.\u201d
\nLavin and MacDonnell plan to offer the diabetes program again next year, and they hope to use a similar approach to address a second health care issue, medication management.
\nStacey Cugno, a nursing major from Berlin, Conn. had just finished a session that demonstrated the use of the insulin powder inhaler. \u201cI can\u2019t see my 82-year-old grandmother doing this,\u201d Cugno said referring to the complexity of the device.
\nNursing student Marcia Pryce of Boston said the program was good for nurses because pharmacists can assist them with the various delivery and testing devices. \u201cBut we can help them because we see the outcomes and challenges of various treatment options,\u201d Price said.
\n\u201cI liked this program because it helped us understand what the patient goes through,\u201d said pharmacy student Shannon Stahler of Woodcliff Lake, N.J.
\nLaura Daley, a pharmacy student from Coventry, said she gained a new appreciation for the skill of nurses in administering injections. \u201cThey are very smooth and coordinated. This gives us all a much better understanding of what each group does.\u201d
\n\u201cWe are going to work together no matter what the setting,\u201d Stahler said. \u201cIt benefits the patients if we don\u2019t have conflicts.\u201d
\nHeather Anderson, a nursing student from Richmond whose mother is a graduate of the pharmacy college, said her mother was excited about the program. \u201cMy mom thought it was good to integrate both groups because they have different points of view.\u201d
\n\u201cThis (cooperation among different professions) is the new face of health care,\u201d said pharmacy student James Medeiros of Charlestown. \u201cClinicians today tend to be diverse, younger and they are more accustomed to sharing information.\u201d
\nMedia Contact: Dave Lavallee<\/a>, 401-874-5862<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A patient with diabetes seeks an alternative to insulin injections. KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2007 -So a new inhaler that provides a painless alternative is the answer, right? It isn\u2019t if the patient has severe arthritis and trouble with dexterity. It might not be an alternative for a patient with memory or concentration issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,50,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-pharmd","category-news-teaching"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}