Disseminating Nursing Best Practices in Diabetes Home Care Utilizing Standardized Language within a Global Context

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION Pressing needs have emerged to promote diabetes care in China along with its strong economic growth. As a major global health issue, diabetes is now becoming the world’s biggest epidemic in China. With 92 million people suffering diabetes, China has the most diabetes cases worldwide.1 Multi-partnership through global efforts has been implemented in the past to improve diabetic care in China based on a Share-Care Community Model.2 Community-based home care has been given a global focus on the initiation of best nursing practices through the employment of the standardized language, the Omaha System,3 by the Minnesota Omaha System Users Group. The purpose of this poster is to describe a translational process based on a conceptual model to disseminate the best practices in diabetes prevention and management in home care pathways through the Chinese language care plan.