title: Type 2 diabetes--a challenge for the occupational health nurse.
abstract: Type 2 DM is occurring at earlier ages in epidemic proportions, thereby increasing the number of individuals with Type 2 DM in the workplace. Health care providers, especially occupational health nurses, have an opportunity to effect change in the trajectory of complications associated with DM by promoting optimal DM management in the workplace.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical/Surgical Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Lauretta
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Quinn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing; D016640:Diabetes, Gestational; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors