Courses
Diabetes Awareness, Blood Sugar Monitoring and the Administration of Insulin | In Person
This course teaches staff how to support people with diabetes. It focuses on diabetes awareness, blood sugar monitoring and the administration of insulin.
- We do not currently offer this as a public course for individuals
- Instead, we offer this as a private course for teams
- Click on the ‘For teams’ tab for details/to enquire
- Click below to see a list of courses that we do run for individuals
- A face to face in person course
- Run privately just for your team
- Run at a venue of your choice
- £675 + VAT per workshop (max 12)
Course overview
Course last audited November 2024
This course teaches staff how to support people with diabetes. It focuses on diabetes awareness, blood sugar monitoring and the administration of insulin.
We use a combination of distance learning to teach the knowledge, plus a face-to-face workshop to teach the practical skills required to monitor blood glucose levels and administer insulin correctly. The face-to-face session also allows our team to assess competency effectively.
There are written tests which students will take to test their knowledge of the theory after reading the workbooks provided. There are also practical tests of competency which need to be undertaken during the face-to-face workshop.
Aimed at
Care support workers who have a role in supporting people with diabetes.
Course content
- Individual healthcare plans (IHP) for diabetes
- The role of glucose and insulin
- The causes of hyperglycaemia
- Symptoms of hyperglycaemia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- The causes of hypoglycaemia
- Symptoms of hypoglycaemia
- Treating hypoglycaemia according to the person’s IHP
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Working from Individual Healthcare Plans (IHPs) for people with diabetes
- The role and support from the diabetes nurse specialists
- The role of insulin and glucose
- Blood sugar monitoring (practical)
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Pricing
£675 + VAT per workshop (max 12) + trainer expenses (click here for details).