Improved foot management of people with diabetes by primary healthcare nurses in Auckland, New Zealand.

CONCLUSIONS: Practice nurses have significantly expanded their role in managing people with diabetes over the last decade by increasing the number of foot examinations and providing recommended foot-care education. Improved management was associated with nurses attending diabetes education in the past five years. Gaps were identified in conducting the recommended number of foot examinations, categorising patients' risk of foot disease and recording previous examinations. PMID: 33332327 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research