MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES - Company Training
The Medication Training Company
Summary
- Tutor is available to students
Overview
I’ve been a pharmacist for 25 years working across all sectors: hospital, community, pharmaceutical companies and academia. I spent several years in my last role as Consultant Pharmacist in Social Care at Brighton and Hove NHS PCT and Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton.
During this time, it became clear that much of what passed medication training involved staff sitting through slide-shows or being talked at by someone in front of a flip chart.
But think of a course you attended last year… what was on the 5th slide, 2nd bullet point down? Surely medicines administration is too important for a “tick box” approach.
My formal teacher training at the university made me realise there was a better way: focus on competency.
Administering medication is a practical skill. It needs close attention to detail and practise to get right. Strip out the theory, write it down, and give this to staff as a permanent reference for them to refer to. Then make the training practical, teach staff to administer medication by actually having them do this, rather than just talk about it. So that’s what I did.
Description
This course teaches staff how to support people with diabetes. It focuses on diabetes awareness, blood sugar monitoring and the administration of insulin.
Learning Outcomes
Workbook
Each learner will be provided with a comprehensive workbook providing the following learning outcomes:
- Individual healthcare plans (IHP) for diabetes
- The role of glucose and insulin
- The causes of hyperglycaemia
- Symptoms of hyperglycaemia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Treating hyperglycaemia according to the person’s IHP
- The causes of hypoglycaemia
- Symptoms of hypoglycaemia
- Treating hypoglycaemia according to the person’s IHP
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Administration of insulin
Workshop:
On the face-to-face workshop you will learn the skills and competencies required, namely:
- 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)
- Hyperglycaemia – causes, symptoms, treatment
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Hypoglycaemia – causes, symptoms, treatment
Assessment
There are written tests that you will take to test your knowledge of the theory (after reading the workbooks). There are practical tests of competency that you will undertake on the face-to-face workshop.
Course Mapping
QCF Unit 3047: Support the use of medication in social care settings.
Who is this course for?
Care support workers who have a role in supporting people with diabetes
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