A31 Insulin and the patient with type 2 Diabetes
Course summary
This training day will help primary care health care professionals understand and manage insulin initiation in clinical practice. Patients with type 2 diabetes who require insulin therapy are increasingly managed in the primary care setting and research shows almost half of type 2 patients will require insulin within 7-10 years of diagnosis.
Who should attend?
Nurse practitioners
Practice nurses
Community matrons
Aims / objectives
- Identify patients who require insulin initiation.
- Describe appropriate treatment for insulin initiation according to the individual's needs.
- Define strategies to titrate therapy to achieve glycaemic targets.
- All objectives are linked to the knowledge and skills framework.
Course programme
- Why and when to initiate insulin therapy - the evidence for insulin initiation in type 2 diabetes insulin.
- Preparing and empowering people on insulin therapy.
- Insulin types and regimens.
- Monitoring blood glucose and treating to target.
- Insulin devices and injection techniques.
- Titrating insulin doses.
Led by
TBA