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Evaluation Of A Diabetic Point Of Care Education In Primary Care, Mary Cho
Evaluation Of A Diabetic Point Of Care Education In Primary Care, Mary Cho
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BACKGROUND: Diabetes education is the cornerstone of managing diabetes. The education can be delivered in group or individual sessions. Given that group classes are not always well received, a brief five-minute point of care education was developed and incorporated into patients’ routine diabetic appointment. The effectiveness of the method is yet to be determined.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of a recently implemented diabetes point of care education as compared to patients’ usual care in an urban primary care clinic.
METHODS: An outcome evaluation using a retrospective …