Facilitating diabetes self-management goal setting in a real-world primary care center.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this article is to present a model for implementing self-management goal setting in a primary care setting.


METHODS
A train-the-trainer model for training staff nurses to facilitate self-management goals with people with type 2 diabetes.


RESULTS
Fourteen staff nurses in 6 primary care sites were trained. In 2 sites that received consistent mentoring, the number and quality of self-management goals increased. Training staff nurses allowed the health center to facilitate self-management goals with patients who did not seek the services of a certified diabetes educator or who obtained care in a site without a certified diabetes educator.


CONCLUSIONS
Self-management goal setting can be implemented in primary care settings in an efficient and economical manner.
Christison-Lagay
Joan
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Community Health Center, Inc, 635 Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457, USA. christij@chc1.com
D003479:Curriculum; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009740:Nursing Staff; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012648:Self Care