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Increasing Nurse Confidence in Patient Teaching Using Motivational Interviewing
Patricia J Stoffers1, Carol Hatler
1Patricia J. Stoffers, DNP, MS-NE, RN, WHNP-BC, is Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and Educator, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona. Carol Hatler, PhD, RN, is Director, Nursing Research at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona.
Abstract:
This article describes a pilot study that involves nurses learning motivational interviewing techniques as a way to enhance confidence in educating patients about diabetes. The pilot study took place in the medical telemetry unit of a large teaching hospital in southwest United States. The intervention included a 2-hour session that involved didactic and role-playing components. Presurvey and postsurvey results indicated that the intervention significantly improved nurses' confidence in teaching patients (t = -7.474, p = .0001).
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