Review of history and changes in self care education to diabetic patients in the world, Iran and the nurses position in this field

Introduction: Today self care behaviors education is the base of diabetes treatment and the nurses have been the special position in self care education in diabetic patients. The self care behaviors education history to diabetic patients had been speared changes that in this article we will review it and the nurses position in self care behaviors education to diabetic patients. Methods: This article is a review article about the history and changes in self care education to diabetic patients in the world, Iran and the nurses position in this field that has been assembled with study articles and nursing and diabetes scientific journals. Results: The self care education to diabetic patients has one hundred years history. At first, doctors had a key role in self care education to diabetic patients, but now the diabetic patient's treatment in most countries has a team working approach and the nurses have a key role in this team and do the self care education to diabetic patients with different approaches such as group discussion, home visit, face to face education, education by telephone and …, and in this way face with barriers and lots of challenges such as lack of workforce in nursing system, lack of self motivation in diabetic patients, emotional stresses, lack of family supports, insufficient information about the importance of education in diabetes, fear of diabetes, problems of subway and … Conclusion: Self care education to diabetic patients had been a valuable and important strategy in field of diabetes control and for achieving to that, it is necessary to use a teamwork approach and use the variable education methods and omitting the existing barriers for nurses and diabetic patients.