Assessment and Management of Foot Ulcers for People with Diabetes

Published: March 2013
Available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Simplified
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Purpose and scope

This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on how to assess and manage people who have been diagnosed with diabetic foot ulcers.  We’ve designed this guideline to help nurses and their interprofessional teams across all health settings become more comfortable, confident and…

This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on how to assess and manage people who have been diagnosed with diabetic foot ulcers. 

We’ve designed this guideline to help nurses and their interprofessional teams across all health settings become more comfortable, confident and competent when caring for people over the age of 15 who have diabetic foot ulcers related to Type 1 and/or Type 2 diabetes. 

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Reference

Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (2013). Assessment and Management of Foot Ulcers for People with Diabetes (second edition). Toronto, ON: Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario.

Recommendations

Do you want to learn about and implement the most- up-to-date evidence-based recommendations on this topic with your colleagues? Download and share the full best practice guideline (BPG), Assessment and Management of Foot Ulcers for People with Diabetes.
See below for a snapshot of the recommendations from this BPG. We strongly suggest you review the full BPG before implementing the recommendations and good practice statements. The BPG also includes further resources to support implementation and evaluation.  

Disclaimer: These guidelines are not binding for nurses, other health providers or the organizations that employ them. The use of these guidelines should be flexible and based on individual needs and local circumstances. They constitute neither a liability nor discharge from liability. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the contents at the time of publication, neither the authors nor the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) gives any guarantee as to the accuracy of the information contained in them or accepts any liability with respect to loss, damage, injury or expense arising from any such errors or omission in the contents of this work.

Revision status

Current edition published 2013.

About the next edition:

The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is developing a third edition of this best practice guideline (BPG), with the working title Diabetic Foot Complications. The anticipated publication date is 2024.

This new edition will replace Assessment and Management of Foot Ulcers for People with Diabetes (2013) and Reducing Foot Complications for People with Diabetes (2007). 

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