Aim of nursing care

Steno’s vision and strategy is to work towards being a Center of Excellence. Steno’s nurses, as part of the care team, must contribute to the realisation of this vision through their involvement in care programmes, research and development initiatives, and educational activities.

Steno’s overall aim is to contribute to giving each individual with diabetes a life expectancy of average length combined with optimal quality of life and without late complications caused by the disease.

The treatment delivered by the interdisciplinary team must be patient-centred. Patients cooperate with the health-care professionals; all involved use their resources in the best possible manner.

The nursing care spans tasks within the areas of health promotion, prevention, and care and treatment of patients with diabetes.

Nursing care must be carried out with a high degree of independence and continuity in individual consultations. Additionally, related tasks must be performed within education and counselling of patients, relatives and others where the point of departure is the idea of empowerment.

The core service of nursing care is to work systematically, analytically and critically with the issues that arise from peoples’ reactions to illness. Planning, setting targets, documentation, quality and evaluation of the means of dealing with the various issues form part of this service.

Through research and development, nursing care will contribute to generating new knowledge about how patients react to illness and how this is handled in everyday life. Nursing care must be developed on an evidence-based background.

The integration of research, development and praxis and retaining research expertise is ensured through maintaining correlation between the strategies for research, education and organisation of the nursing care.

Nursing-care research and development can be conducted alone, on an interdisciplinary basis or in cooperation with other areas within Steno Diabetes Center, e.g., the Steno Health Promotion Center. Cooperation with external partners, both national and international, must also be developed and strengthened.