When assessing the patient with diabetes for complications, it is especially important for the nurse to pay attention to:
1. Creatinine.
2. Albumin.
3. Potassium.
4. Sclera.
Creatinine.
Rationale: Nephropathy is a long-term complication of diabetes, reflected by an increase in the serum creatinine. Albumin, potassium, and the sclera are not specifically related to assessment of diabetic complications. Assessment of the retina for evidence of microvascular complications is part of the assessment of complications in the diabetic.
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