Diabetes Self-Education In Nursing

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Diabetes Self-Management Education in the Hospital Setting: Survival Skills for the Real World

Diabetes mellitus has been identified as a growing global, national, and local public health concern. Chronic disease management for conditions, such as diabetes, requires patients to make daily self-management decisions. Patient education has been regarded as the cornerstone of effective diabetes self-management for years. Providing adult, newly diagnosed diabetics with the survival skills necessary to safely manage their diabetes upon discharge serves as the guiding principle in the development of the student team’s evidence-based practice improvement project at CHI St. Alexius Health – Bismarck. The background and significance of the …show more content…
Diabetes self-management education assists patients in navigating the numerous, complex decisions and care activities that diabetic patients face on a daily basis. Powers et al. (2015) described DSME as “the process of facilitating the knowledge, skills, and ability necessary for diabetes self-care” (p. 1372). Special attention has been focused on the inpatient hospital setting and ensuring that new diabetic patients participate in basic DSME prior to hospital discharge. Given the benefits of DSME, organizations are encouraged to engage interdisciplinary teams to examine current organizational practice regarding diabetic education and care processes. A variety of DSME programs and interventions have been described in the literature and organizations will be best served by examining the best evidence in creating and optimizing such processes to their patient population and specific …show more content…
In the U.S., 18 percent of Medicare hospital admissions are typically readmitted within 30 days of discharge. This translates into nearly 15 billion dollars of healthcare costs annually (Mokhtar et al., 2012). Estimates show that almost 12 billion dollars of this readmission cost is preventable (Mokhtar et al.,
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