Nurse-Patient Interactions Related to Diabetes Foot Care

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In today’s world, research and it implications to nursing practice are paramount to positive patient results. The following critique of the quantitative research article entitled “Nurse-Patient Interactions Related to Diabetes Foot Care” written by Lisa Sue Flood. This is a critique of her research study dated November of 2009 Oakland University, Rochester Michigan.

Problem Statement, Study Purpose, and Research Question

Diabetic foot care is becoming an ever increasing concern as diabetes has reached epidemic proportion. This has increased the associated diabetic problems such as amputations and non-healing ulcerations. The increase in education in this area is of extreme importance in order to control this epidemic from affecting increasingly more patients. It is through updated research and education of this issue that we as nurses will be able to serve our diabetic patients in the way that is needed so they can maintain as close to a normal life as possible. This recent research study gives diabetic patients this opportunity. The main question in this paper is there a relationship between nurse variables (age, gender, level of nursing education, and years of nursing experience) and reported nurse patient interactions related to diabetic foot care?

Hypotheses and Study Variables

Although the intended hypothesis was not determined by the researcher in this study, I would determine it to be a null hypothesis as nurse-patient interactions (independent variable) have no effect on diabetes related outcomes (dependent variable). The alternative hypothesis would then reject the null hypothesis by stating that nurse-patient interactions do affect diabetic related outcomes. We use the nurse-patient interaction as the independent va...

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...ended clinical practice standards for diabetic foot care to obtain positive patient outcomes. Further research should include a larger sample to determine regional trends and deficits and a study that concentrates on Type 1 diabetes should also be done to determine differences in interactions for this group. Research into diabetes and associated care is paramount to alleviating one of the quietest epidemics of modern times with 8.3 % of the population and 25.4% with pre-diabetes.

Works Cited

Cox, C. L. (1982). An interaction model of client health behavior: Theoretical prescription for research. Advances in Nursing Science, 5: 41-56.

Flood, L. S. (2009). Nurse-Patient Interactions Related to Dibetic Foot Care. MEDSURG Nursing, 18, 361-368.

Shattell, M. (2004). Nurse-patient interaction: A review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 13(3), 714-722.

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