Registered Nurses′ Actual and Perceived Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus

Eldeirawi, Kamal; Zuraikat, Nashat

doi:10.1097/00124645-200101000-00001

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“…13 Despite this, studies have continued to show deficiencies in health care professionals' knowledge of insulin use. 6,8,10 This study aimed to quantify the extent of this problem among health care workers and attempted to show the differences in understanding of and knowledge about insulin use among physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.…”

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“…Studies in Europe, America, and South Asia have shown significant deficits in insulin-related knowledge among health care workers. [8][9][10] Nurses have been found to have inadequate knowledge to teach patients basic insulin administration skills, 8,9 and physicians have been found to give suboptimal diabetes care (based on American Diabetes Association [ADA] guidelines). 10 However, to our knowledge, there are no published studies on insulin-related knowledge from Singapore.…”

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Insulin-Related Knowledge Among Health Care Professionals at a Tertiary Hospital

Lee¹,

Liu²,

Quek³

et al. 2013

Diabetes Spectrum

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Insulin-Related Knowledge Among Health Care Professionals at a Tertiary Hospital

Lee¹,

Liu²,

Quek³

et al. 2013

Diabetes Spectrum

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“…A well structured diabetic patient education has been identified as a potent means of helping diabetic patient achieve quality life devoid of complications [19] . Scholars [20][21][22] have identified that content and context of diabetes patient education have been a major problem confronting nurses. However, it was reported in some studies [17,[20][21][22] that nurses demonstrated poor knowledge of diabetes.…”

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Nurses’ knowledge of contents of diabetes patient education in Ondo – state, Nigeria

Oyetunde

Famakinwa

2014

JNEP

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Background: Diabetes patient education is central to achieving active participation in management of diabetes. This participation is critical to quality and quantity of life among diabetic patients. However, observations show uncontrolled and complicated diabetes; noncompliance with the treatment regimen traceable to poor transfer of knowledge. The study was designed to assess nurses' knowledge of diabetes patient education in government hospitals in Ondo State. Method:The survey consisted of Four hundred and one registered randomly selected nurses working in various units of the selected hospitals. The instrument was a validated, self administered 44 -item questionnaire developed by the researchers using the professional prompter worksheet for diabetes education and content areas of diabetes education. The questionnaire focused on four content areas of diabetes education-nutrition, exercise and activity, glucose monitoring, and foot and skin care. Result:The result showed that the respondents were majorly females (82.3%). Seventy two percent of the respondents had between 1year and 5years of work experience. Only 8.2% had 1 st degree. Respondents demonstrated poor knowledge in the specified content areas of diabetes patients' education. Good knowledge of nutrition was only 29.2% while that of exercise/activity was 24.9% of respondents. For glucose monitoring, only 24.9% had good knowledge while that of hygiene/foot care was 34.4% of the respondents. The mean scores for the content areas were nutrition: 51 15; exercise/activity: 50 14; glucose monitoring: 50 14 and foot and skin care: 53 16 respectively. Respondents with one to five years work experience performed better than those with longer years of experience in the selected content areas. Conclusion:In view of this result, it is recommended that definitive modules for educating diabetes patient be developed for each health institution and more emphasis placed on continuing education of nurses to update their knowledge about current Diabetes management.

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“…Previous researchers have adapted instruments to meet the needs of diabetes mellitus knowledge among nurses, (Drass et al, 1989;El-Deirawi & Zuraikat, 2001) …”

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“…Researchers measure such knowledge gaps by comparing perceived knowledge, defined as what the learner thinks he or she knows, with actual knowledge, what the learner actually knows. A poor relationship exists between perceived knowledge and actual knowledge (Clark, Jackson, & Allen-Taylor, 2002;Drass, Muir-Nash, Boykin, Turek, & Baker, 1989;El-Deirawi & Zuraikat, 2001;van den Arend, Stolk, Rutten, & Schrijvers, 2000), suggesting that most learners are unaware of their knowledge gap or are not self-directed and are therefore not likely to pursue CE. Without adequate professional or personal experiences, all learners, even self-directed learners, may require external feedback to identify the gap in their knowledge.…”

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Effect of Performance Feedback on Perceived Knowledge and Likelihood to Pursue Continuing Education

Eberman¹

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To all my family and friends, I am thankful for your patience and willingness to help, even when it seemed helpless. To my mother and father, thank you for instilling the need to learn and the desire to succeed. To Ryan, you remind me to be content with today, but give me hope for more tomorrow. To Blair, thank you for bringing out the child in me-we will always be young at heart if we have each other. To my running buddies Jenn and Pattie, thank you for helping me find a way to relieve the anxiety to this seemingly impossible obstacle. To all those that helped in my many times of need, you know who you are and I am indebted to you always. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of performance feedback on Athletic Trainers' (ATs) perceived knowledge (PK) and likelihood to pursue continuing education (CE). The investigation was grounded in the theories of "the definition of the situation" (Thomas & Thomas, 1928) and the "illusion of knowing," (Glenberg, Wilkinson, & Epstein, 1982) suggesting that PK drives behavior. This investigation measured the degree to which knowledge gap predicted CE seeking behavior by providing performance feedback designed to change PK.A pre-test post-test control-group design was used to measure PK and likelihood to pursue CE before and after assessing actual knowledge. ATs (n=103) were randomly sampled and assigned to two groups, with and without performance feedback. Two independent samples t-tests were used to compare groups on the difference scores of the dependent variables. Likelihood to pursue CE was predicted by three variables using multiple linear regression: perceived knowledge, pre-test likelihood to pursue CE, and knowledge gap. In this investigation, performance feedback significantly increased participants' likelihood to pursue CE. Pre-test knowledge gap was a significant predictor of likelihood to pursue CE, regardless if performance feedback was provided. ATs may have selfassessed and engaged in internal feedback as a result of their test-taking experience.These findings indicate that feedback, both internal and external, may be necessary to trigger CE seeking behavior.

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Registered Nurses′ Actual and Perceived Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Insulin-Related Knowledge Among Health Care Professionals at a Tertiary Hospital

Insulin-Related Knowledge Among Health Care Professionals at a Tertiary Hospital

Nurses’ knowledge of contents of diabetes patient education in Ondo – state, Nigeria

Effect of Performance Feedback on Perceived Knowledge and Likelihood to Pursue Continuing Education

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