Nursing intervention in insulin administration: telephone follow-up

• Main Author: Becker,Tânia Alves Canata
• Publication Date: 2012
• Other Authors: Teixeira,Carla Regina de Souza, Zanetti,Maria Lucia
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem (Online)
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• topic: Insulin; Diabetes mellitus; Nursing Care; Telephone

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the competency of people with diabetes mellitus to perform the insulin administration process, before and after telephone monitoring. METHODS: A quantitative, observational, longitudinal, comparative study. Participants were 26 people enrolled in the at-home capillary glycemia self-monitoring program. Data collection occurred in three phases, in January and February of 2010, for a period of 30 days for each person, by means of interview guided by a data collection instrument and an intervention manual. RESULTS: Of the 38 (100%) questions referring to the insulin administration process, telephone monitoring was demonstrated to be efficient in 30 (78.9%), but in 19 (50%) the intervention was statistically significant (p<0.05), in 11 (28.9%) there were no errors in responses to the final competency evaluation, and seven (18.4%) were not amenable to intervention. CONCLUSION: Telephone mornitoring was effective, as a nursing intervention strategy for the insulin administration process in the home.