Impacting Nursing Students' Confidence and Skills in Utilizing Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices.
Purpose: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) provides a more reliable and convenient way for patients to check blood glucose levels than fingerstick monitoring. Patients in rural areas may have less access to CGMs than those in urban areas. The purpose of this project was to provide focused educatio...
| Publicado en: | Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 74 - 89 |
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Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Healthcare
2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=194243028&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 194243028 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15393399 1CZA jtl: Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care issn: 15393399 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2026 vid: 26 iid: 1 pid: 24740 pub: Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Healthcare place: Chicago, Illinois artinfo: ui: 194243028 194243028 194243028 10.14574/ojrnhc.v26i1.817 194243028 ppf: 74 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Impacting Nursing Students' Confidence and Skills in Utilizing Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices. aug: au: George, Tracy Phillips, Tiffany A. Munn, Allison C. Bennett, Meagan affil: Associate Professor of Nursing ; Coordinator of the Bachelor of General Studies Program ; J.L. Mason Endowed Chair for the School of Health Sciences, Francis Marion University sug: subj: Continuous Glucose Monitoring Education Continuous Glucose Monitoring Equipment and Supplies Students, Nursing, Baccalaureate Confidence Family Nurse Practitioners Students Rural Areas Intraprofessional Relations Seminars and Workshops Consumer Attitudes Human Southeastern United States Male Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Descriptive Research Descriptive Statistics Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test Chi Square Test Kruskal-Wallis Test Mann-Whitney U Test Thematic Analysis Experiential Learning Skill Acquisition Diabetes Mellitus Self-Management Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Purpose: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) provides a more reliable and convenient way for patients to check blood glucose levels than fingerstick monitoring. Patients in rural areas may have less access to CGMs than those in urban areas. The purpose of this project was to provide focused education about CGMs and a two-week user-wear experience to undergraduate nursing and family nurse practitioner (FNP) students in a rural liberal arts university through an intraprofessional workshop and user-wear experience. Sample: Students eligible for participation in the study included those in the graduate FNP (n=16) and undergraduate pre-licensure Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) (n=35) programs. Methods: All eligible FNP and BSN students (n=51) participated in the in-person educational session on CGMs. At the beginning of the CGM workshop, students were asked to complete the pre-implementation survey. During the workshop, students and faculty were educated about CGMs and given the opportunity to self-apply a CGM for a two-week user-wear experience. At the end of the user-wear experience, students were encouraged to complete the post-implementation survey. Findings: All 10 scored survey items measuring student familiarity and perception of skill with CGM devices had statistically significant differences in pre- and post-survey ranked scores. Review of the qualitative responses revealed four themes: understanding, confidence, personal experience, and clinical preparation. Conclusions: The intraprofessional CGM workshop and user wear experience allowed undergraduate BSN and graduate FNP students to engage with each other in a clinical and experiential learning activity to improve their understanding, confidence, and skills in diabetes management with CGM devices. All students reported improved self-perception of confidence and skills in using CGMs after the workshop. It is crucial for undergraduate and nurse practitioner students to become more familiar with CGMs through workshops and hands-on activities, especially in rural areas where CGM use is not optimized. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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