We were asked to develop a course by Staffordshire & Stoke-On-Trent Care Group following their successful pilot, working closely with Dexcom, in intensifying and reducing insulin for housebound patients by interpreting their interstitial sensors.
Outline of content
The course aims to provide students with insight and resources (including interstitial sensors), enabling them to support an elderly, frail, housebound person with type 2 diabetes on a complex treatment regimen, including insulin. This will allow students to both define their prescribing scope of practice with diabetes medications and embed the learnt skills in clinical practice to improve patient care.
Learning outcomes and programme summary
On completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Set blood glucose target ranges in line with an individual HbA1c target
- Understand the diabetes medications suitable for the elderly, frail person with type 2 diabetes
- Explain the common insulin regimens used to treat people with type 2 and type 1 diabetes
- Understand the PITstop insulin general rules, including insulin titration
- Understand the principles in managing and interpreting interstitial glucose sensors
- Understand key subjects related to insulin that are relevant to diabetes review appointments
- Apply partnership working with patients to promote self-management of injectable therapies, working towards individual glycaemic targets
- Consider how they can best support people with type 2 diabetes on GLP-1s and insulin.
Registration options
- Courses can be commissioned live online or locally to you. The national team will travel to a venue of your choice and deliver the course. Registration will be open to invited healthcare professionals in the local vicinity. To commission a course a minimum of 12 students is required and a maximum 24
Course delivery
Courses can either be delivered online via Zoom or face-to-face locally. Duration 6.5 hours
Students will have access to a paper workbook and interactive pdf workbook.
Suitable for
- Community nurse prescribers who are independent prescribers or working towards this qualification
- Ideally have attended to a foundation level diabetes course or can provide evidence of self-directed learning
Prices
To commission a local course please contact us for an individual quote based on online or face-to face. The price for an individual to attend a national course run online is £192 including VAT.
Confidence poll results from the pilot course run in January 2024
We asked the same four questions before and after the course to see if the attendees confidence improved, here are the results:
