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Diabetes as one of Non-communicable diseases has allocated a large proportion of cost, time and human resources of health systems. Now, due to changes in lifestyle and industrial process, incidence of diabetes and its complications have been increased. Accordingly diabetic foot considered as a common complication of diabetes.Nurses are health care providers who actively involved in prevention and early detection of diabetes and its complications. The nurses’ role could be in health care, health, community education, health systems management, patient care and improving the quality of life.Diabetes Nurses play their educating role in the field of prevention of diabetic foot, foot care and preventing from foot injury. In care dimension, nurses responsible for early detection of any changes in skin and foot sensation, foot care, dressing and apply novel technology.In the area of rehabilitation, help patient sufferings from diabetic foot ulcer or amputation, to have movement are diabetes nurse’s duties.Consequently, nurses need to attend in special training to use the latest instructions of diabetic foot care in order that provides the effective services to facilitate promote diabetic patients health.

Objectives To explore the association between patients' perceptions of communication quality with their provider and a range of patients' outcomes in T2DM. Also, to identify barriers and facilitators to effective communication from the patients' perspective. Methods English and Persian papers published from 2000 to 2017 were searched in Web of Science, Pubmed, Scopus, Embase and SID, IranMedex, and MAGIRAN databases using appropriate search terms. Twenty-two studies complied the inclusion criteria. Each study was assessed for the focus of the study, study design (cross-sectional or qualitative study), population, outcome measures, patients' outcomes, and methodological quality. Results The quality of most studies was moderate to high based on the JBI Critical Appraisal Checklists. Higher perceived quality of provider-patient communication in patients with T2DM was associated with improved self-management, adherence to diabetes care and greater well-being, perceived personal control, self-efficacy, and less diabetes distress. Factors that patients with T2DM perceived as important factors in facilitating or hampering effective communication were more related to the provision of emotional support. Discussion The limited evidence shows patient-perceived communication quality is a significant modifiable approach for improving a range of outcomes in patients with T2DM. Due to socio-cultural differences, further high-quality research is needed for deciding the best communication style in various societies.

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed nurses to a rapidly changing patient care practice. This study explored nurses’ experiences in caring for COVID-19 patients. Methods: Eighteen nurses, head nurses, and clinical supervisors employed in one of the hospitals affiliated to the Shahid Beheshti Medical University to participate in this qualitative content analysis study. Data were collected through interviews and field notes. The data were analyzed with conventional content analysis. Results: Data analysis of nurses’ experiences with respect to COVID-19 patients resulted in the extraction of information on 5 major categories: “security in care-giving,” “healing hands, empty hands,” “mental and physical problems,” “multiple feelings,” and “self-reassurance” and 11 subcategories. Conclusion: We found that giving care to COVID-19 patients entailed complex, intermingled, and interrelated physical, mental, and emotional aspects that underwent changes over time so that it can be called “journey of nursing in COVID-19 crisis.” The findings of this study further revealed that nurses’ experiences, feelings, and thoughts underwent modifications gradually, over time. They believed that they have undergone development in caregiving and experienced deeper aspects of nursing care.