Objective To explore the feasibility, practicability and effect of diabetes education process. Methods The basic knowledge of diabetes were incorperated into diabetes education process, which were applied to 280 cases who were admitted at the first time. The diabetes education process was following:the responsibility nurses conduct the stage education, the speciality diabetes educator carry out the evaluation of education efficacy, then the patients were received the re-educated. The study were restrospectively researched according to the different aspects of education. Results The average education duration was ( 136 ± 27) min, the difficult aspects wer diet and exercise science, as they needed more education time and the efficacy was not so good. Different gender, age, duration, and degree education and general education time were correlated with quality of education (P ＜ 0. 05 ). Conclusions Using education process of "one to one" education can make the patient master the average diabetic knowledge (70%), satisfy the patients' basic and actual requirements and improve the nurses' management level.