Abstract
Since 2008, management fee for diabetic complications and foot care have been introduced in numerous hospitals. Foot care is also provided in other facilities in order to allow patients to continue on with their daily lives. In five fields such as hospital wards, hospital outpatient clinics, home-visit nursing care, nursing home, and clinics, nurses who provide foot care play an important role of the team approach in health care. Also, the current condition of foot care and the distinctive features in those fields are considered. Nurses work to share and secure patients’ information with other healthcare professionals, keep a close watch on patients and their families, and provide daily support during medical treatments. Therefore, it is evident that nurses play an important role in continuous foot care by ‘connecting’ in the team approach in health care.
