Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Discuss legal and professional responsibilities associated with performing diabetes care with local and national guidance
- Follow procedures for gaining consent and correct documentation
- Outline the physiology of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
- Identify and explain the signs and symptoms of diabetes
- Explain the risk factors for diabetes and discuss diagnosis criteria
- Understand the need to manage health and safety risk
- Describe how to maintain the health of a person with diabetes
- Identify the range of available equipment and medication
- Demonstrate how to monitor blood sugar levels and give insulin
- Discuss how to identify and manage episodes of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia
- Describe long term conditions associated with diabetes
Course content
- Legal and professional considerations and responsibilities
- Consent for care and treatment
- Setting the scene – introduction
- Statistics
- Busting the myths
- Diabetes explained
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Symptoms of diabetes
- Making a diagnosis
- HbA1c
- Fasting Plasma Glucose
- Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
- Diet and carbohydrate counting
- Physical activity
- Blood pressure
- Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Equipment
- Hand cleansing
- Performing the test
- Recommended levels
- Aims of diabetes treatment
- Drug treatment
- Use of insulin
- Rationale
- Types and brand examples
- Injecting devices + pumps
- Storage
- Injection sites
- Administering insulin injections
- Acute complications
- Hypoglycaemia + Management
- Hyperglycaemia + Management
- Chronic Complications
- Retinopathy
- Foot problems
- Cardiovascular disease
- Kidney disease
- Neuropathy
- Principles of Nursing Practice
