Date of Conferral
12-9-2024
Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
School
Nursing
Advisor
Anna Hubbard
Abstract
Summary The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project involved a staff education program resulting from an identified practice gap. The nursing staff lacked the knowledge and skills necessary about Type 2 diabetes to teach their patients self-care management of their condition. The setting was an outpatient family practice clinic in Houston, Texas. The facility director reported that the clinic patients were experiencing unstable and high blood sugar due to their lack of knowledge about diabetes self-care management. The nurses were not knowledgeable enough about diabetes care to teach the patients. The practice-focused question was whether staff education could increase nurses’ knowledge of Type 2 diabetes care. The project enabled the clinic nurses to obtain the vital knowledge and skills to teach patients about diabetes self-management. The PowerPoint teaching presentation was an hour long and provided for seven staff nurses who volunteered to participate in the educational intervention. The content included evidence-based information related to diabetes and self-care management. The nurses completed a pretest and post-test multiple-choice survey questions to determine improvement in knowledge due to education. Data were entered into IBM SPSS (Version 29) and compared at pretest and post-test with a paired samples t-test. The result showed a statistically significant improvement in the mean knowledge score from the pretest mean of 5.29 to the post-test mean of 9.71. The p-value was less than .05, indicating that the increase in mean knowledge scores was statistically significant. The findings can potentially effect positive social change by increasing nurses’ knowledge, equipping patients with skills for self-care management, and reducing complications from diabetes, thereby improving individual and population health.
Recommended Citation
Nwasuruba, Ngozi, "Staff Education on Type 2 Diabetes Management" (2024). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 17059.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/17059
