Research project It is of importance to increase knowledge among the professionals and providing opportunities for reflections about their professional role, and interaction, and also a necessity to increase awareness about how these could influence the encounters between professionals and patients.
The project is studying Diabetes specialized nurses (DSNs´) role development during a patient education intervention, including patient centered care aiming at patient empowerment.It is of importance to increase knowledge among the professionals and providing opportunities for reflections about their professional role, and their interaction with patients, and also a necessity to increase awareness about how these could influence the encounters between professionals and patients.A patient education intervention is taking part in North Sweden in the counties of Västerbotten and Västernorrland (external control group)among patients with diabetes. A special focus on the DSNs roles and development is paid attention in this PhD-project. The DNS are followed over time i.e. before, during and after the patient education intervention with data collection including questionnaires, interviews and observations. Expectations of this study is to increase knowledge about implementation of empowerment based interventions with focus on professional roles and development, interaction to improve diabetes care for future.
