The situation of seven years after the implementation of diabetes educator training program in China

Abstract

Objective To investigate the comprehensivework of diabetes educators who had the certifications of Chinese Medical Association-Chinese Center for Disease Control-Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute (JJDI) and the satisfaction of manager. Method Cross-sectional investigating method was used in this study. Educators who had finished the training in JJDI from 2008 to 2014 and their managers were involved. The diabetes educators were required to fill in the questionnaire for diabetes educator and the managers were required to fill in the questionnaire for education leader on line. The data was analysis by SPSS 17.0. Data between groups were analyzedby chi-square test. Measurement data were analyzed by t test. Result The satisfaction for curriculum before and after 2010 hasn't statistical differences, however the satisfaction of practice curriculumhas declined- trend.About 64.5% (89/138) students thought that their capacity was improved after training. Compared with the result of 2010, the time that the students spent to educate the inpatients with diabetes were increase form (23±16) hours per month to (36±29) hours per month (t=-2.334, P<0.05), the time that they spent to educate the outpatient with diabetes were increase form (14± 12) hours per month to (32 ± 26) hours per month (t=- 2.194, P<0.029). Exceptimplement the education workflowand training the other nurses, the work that the systematic education (80.8% vs 92.2%, χ2=19.766, P<0.001) , recording the education of patients (54.6% vs 80.3%, χ2=51.384, P<0.001) and evaluation the education (50.8% vs 88.9%, χ2=107.729, P<0.001) had improved obviously. The main difficulties between 2010 and 2014 were that they had no enough time to educate patients (78.1% vs 50.9%, χ2=60.365, P<0.001) and had no full-time diabetes educator in their department (72.3%vs15.9%, χ2=188.310, P<0.001). The percentage of above data in 2014 decreased compared with in 2010. For managers, 23.4% (123/525) of them were unsatisfied with the work of research carried by these educators. Conclusion The content and time spent on diabetes education were improved from 2010. In the future, we should manage and evaluate the practice bases, give the educator full-time education job, train on nursing research and improve the comprehensivequality of educators. Key words: Certified diabetes educator; Train