Inpatient diabetes management: examining morning practice in an acute care setting.

Purpose: Morning diabetes management in an inpatient acute care facility was examined.

Methods: A descriptive, nonexperimental research design was used to study the effect of the following variables on patients' prelunch blood glucose: duration of time between (1) blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration, (2) insulin administration and breakfast, and (3) blood glucose monitoring and breakfast. A nonprobability convenience sample was used to examine 40 adults with diabetes who were hospitalized in an urban, academic medical center.