Awareness of Clinical Application Guide of Blood Glucose Monitoring in China (Edition 2015) among community nurses in Chaoyang District in Beijing

Abstract

Objective To assess the current stage of awareness and knowledge of Clinical Application Guide of Blood Glucose Monitoring in China (Edition 2015) among community nurses, hereby to provide a basis for carrying out standardized blood glucose monitoring training for community nurses. Methods A total of 415 clinical nurses were elected with cluster sampling method from community health service centers on May 30, 2017, including 198 nurses, 185 senior nurses, 30 supervisor nurses and more than 2 associate chief nurses. The data were collected and integrated into the database, categorical data is represented by the constituent ratio (%),variance analysis was used for comparison between groups. Results Analysis total of 241 community nurses were lack of awareness of the guidelines and did not often recommend self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) prescriptions for patients, accounting for 58.08%. A smaller portion of responders (178 cases, 42.8%) fully disclosed SMBG related information A total number of 228 cases (54.94%) areaware of 6 self blood glucose monitoring programs recommended by the guide and their impact on diabetes management, accounting for. nurses from different department have varying cognitive scores on the guideline. Among them, general department nurses had the highest score [(20.26±3.00) points]. The differences among departments were statistically significant (F=8.631, P<0.05). Nurses with different working years had different cognitive scores on the guidelines. Among them, the scores of nurses working 11-15 years were the highest [(21.21±3.65) points]. The difference among groups was statistically significant (F=7.689, P<0.05).The average score of blood glucose monitoring was (20.21±3.90) points, 180 cases 43.37%. Scored either good or pass 235 cases (56.63%) failed. 172 cases (46.36%) of non-titled nurses achieved good or pass, 8 cases (18.18%) of titled nurses got good or pass. Conclusion The study results indicate that there is a definite gap in knowledge of of blood glucose monitoring applications amongst tcommunity nurses. Key words: Community health centers; Nurses; Blood glucose self-monitoring; Guidebooks; Questionnaires