Diabetes care: practice nurse roles, attitudes and concerns

Journal of Advanced Nursing
T KenealyD Simmons

Abstract

Practice nurses (PNs) are the largest group of nurses providing primary care for patients with diabetes in New Zealand, and changes in the health system are likely to have a substantial effect on their roles. To inform the development of a new primary health care nursing structure and evaluate the new role associated with this, it will be important to have data on current practice nurse roles. The aim of this paper is to report a study to compare the diabetes-related work roles, training and attitudes of practice nurses in New Zealand surveyed in 1990 and 1999, to consider whether barriers to practice nurse diabetes care changed through that decade, and whether ongoing barriers will be addressed by current changes in primary care. Questionnaires were mailed to all 146 PNs in South Auckland in 1990 and to all 180 in 1999, asking about personal and practice descriptions, practice organization, time spent with patients with diabetes, screening practices, components of care undertaken by practice nurses, difficulties and barriers to good practice, training in diabetes and need for further education. The 1999 questionnaire also asked about nurse prescribing and influence on patient quality of life. More nurses surveyed in 1999 had p...Continue Reading

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