George Brown College: Bachelor Nursing Assignment 2 Summary

This assignment is a summary of the research article "Do practice nurses have the knowledge to provide diabetes self-management education?" by Hollis, Glaister & Lapsley (2014). The study investigated the awareness of practice nurses (PNs) regarding the provision of self-management education for diabetes. Using a cross-sectional method and a questionnaire, the researchers aimed to identify variables mediating PNs' knowledge of diabetes care and patient management. The findings revealed that many PNs lacked sufficient knowledge of diabetes pathophysiology. The article highlighted that PNs spend a significant amount of time caring for diabetes patients and emphasized the need for increased training in diabetes self-management education (DSME) to improve patient care. The conclusion stressed that providing PNs with DSME training could help reduce errors and improve the quality of care for diabetic patients. The study also referenced Kennedy et al. (2014) to support the need for PNs to gain more knowledge about DSME. The assignment follows APA guidelines for formatting and citation, summarizing the article's focus, methodology, findings, and conclusions, including at least one appropriately cited quotation from the article.

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Article summary
Main intend of the article is to investigate the awareness of practice nurses (PNs)
regarding provision of self-management education. An objective of this study is to identify
the variables, which mediate the knowledge associated with PNs. Another objective of the
research is to evaluate the level of knowledge of PNs about diabetes care and patient
management (Hollis, Glaister & Anne Lapsley, 2014). Various national standards are there
for Diabetes self-management education (DSME). In this study, a non-experimental and
cross-sectional method of study was selected. The convenience sampling method was used to
select the PNs. The response rate was 57% and 52 nurses were selected. Data collection was
done by a questionnaire and distributed through the mail system.
The findings of this article have revealed that most of the PNs do not have prior
knowledge regarding the pathophysiology of diabetes. Hollis, Glaister & Anne Lapsley
(2014) have mentioned, "PNs reported spending on average 3.9 hours per week for providing
care to diabetes patients”. As suggested by Kennedy et al. (2014), PNs need to gain more
knowledge about DSME. In the conclusion part, it has been stated that PNs need to be
provided with training about DSME, which can help them to provide better care to diabetic
patients. Lack of knowledge may support the happening of mistakes by PNS in terms of
providing care to patients with diabetes.

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Reference list
Hollis, M., Glaister, K., & Anne Lapsley, J. (2014). Do practice nurses have the knowledge to
provide diabetes self-management education?. Contemporary nurse, 46(2), 234-241.
Retrieved from:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5172/conu.2014.46.2.234
Kennedy, A., Rogers, A., Chew-Graham, C., Blakeman, T., Bowen, R., Gardner, C., ... &
Protheroe, J. (2014). Implementation of a self-management support approach (WISE)
across a health system: a process evaluation explaining what did and did not work for
organisations, clinicians and patients. Implementation Science, 9(1), 129. Retrieved
from:https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13012-014-
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