Insulin and Diabetes Medication Safety

1. Program overview

Insulin errors are frequent, serious and largely preventable. This course covers insulin types and their time-action profiles, prescribing and administration safety including the abbreviation and device errors that cause tenfold overdoses, glucose monitoring and target ranges, recognition and treatment of hypoglycaemia, sick-day and perioperative adjustment, and the transitions where insulin regimens most often go wrong. It also covers oral and injectable non-insulin agents with an emphasis on the ones that cause avoidable admissions.

2. Why this program

• Concentrates on the errors that actually happen.
• Time-action profiles taught practically.
• Includes sick-day and perioperative adjustment.
• Hypoglycaemia recognition and treatment covered fully.

3. Who it is for

Nurse · Pharmacist · Physician · Allied Health · Student

4. Program objectives

• Differentiate insulin types by time-action profile and clinical use
• Apply safe prescribing and administration practice for insulin
• Recognise and treat hypoglycaemia promptly
• Interpret glucose monitoring against appropriate targets
• Apply sick-day and perioperative adjustment principles
• Identify the transition points where insulin regimens fail

5. Learning outcomes

• Match an insulin type to a described clinical requirement
• Identify the error risk in a described insulin prescription
• Apply correct treatment to a described hypoglycaemic episode
• Evaluate glucose readings against an appropriate target range
• Apply sick-day guidance to a described scenario
• Recognise a reconciliation failure in a described transition

6. Curriculum

1. Module 1: Insulin Types and Action Profiles

   • Insulin Types and Action Profiles

2. Module 2: Prescribing and Administration Safety

   • Prescribing and Administration Safety

3. Module 3: Monitoring and Targets

   • Monitoring and Targets

4. Module 4: Hypoglycaemia

   • Hypoglycaemia

5. Module 5: Sick Days, Surgery and Transitions

   • Sick Days, Surgery and Transitions

7. Duration and structure

Total study hours: 3 — 2.5h content + 0.5h assessment. Duration is expressed in study hours only.

9. What you receive

This certificate confirms completion of Insulin and Diabetes Medication Safety. Duration is expressed in study hours.

10. Delivery format

Self-paced · start any time · any device · lifetime access to the enrolled version.