Summary of Checking Blood Sugar (Glucose) Level | How to Use a Glucometer (Glucose Meter)
The video provides a detailed explanation of how to accurately check blood sugar using a glucometer, targeting nursing students or newly diagnosed diabetics. It emphasizes the importance of using the right supplies like testing strips, a meter, lancets, and a lancet device. The methodology includes washing hands, priming the lancet device, inserting the testing strip, poking the finger, and reading the blood sugar level on the meter. Tips are given on selecting the appropriate lancet gauge based on skin thickness and proper disposal of lancets. The overall goal is to educate viewers on the process of checking blood sugar effectively.
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00:12
— « I like to take breakfast with bread.
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02:55
— « you'll always want to get some type of quality control testing because when you first get your monitor you want to do a quality control test just to make sure it's calibrated right
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03:26
— « you unscrew that you load the landset in there and you engage it and then you poke your finger
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03:49
— « when you run out of testing strips you have to buy the test strips that go along with the monitor
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09:42
— « after you get done with that record what your blood glucose was »