Blood Glucose Monitoring & Insulin Administration
📅 Duration: 3 hours (half-day)
👩⚕️ Audience: Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, Healthcare Assistants, Community Staff, Care Home Nurses, General Practice Staff and other healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care.
🏥 Format: Face-to-face at your organisation
👥 Group Size: Up to 10 delegates
Blood Glucose Monitoring Training for Healthcare Staff
Course Details:
Safe blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration are essential clinical skills across healthcare and care settings. Poor diabetes management can lead to serious complications including hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, delayed wound healing and avoidable hospital admissions. This practical course explores diabetes awareness, blood glucose monitoring, flash glucose monitoring, insulin administration techniques and safe diabetes care in clinical practice.
Learners will develop confidence in recognising the signs and symptoms of diabetes, understanding different insulin types, administering insulin safely and responding appropriately to diabetic emergencies. The course also reinforces accountability, infection prevention and safe medicines management principles.
Approximately 3.8 million people in the UK are currently living with diabetes, with a further 13.6 million people considered at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
Learning Outcomes – Blood Glucose Monitoring Training
By the end of this CPD-accredited course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
- Recognise signs of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia
- Perform safe blood glucose monitoring
- Understand the principles of flash glucose monitoring
- Identify different types of insulin
- Demonstrate safe insulin administration techniques
- Apply safe infection prevention and medicines management principles
- Recognise complications associated with diabetes and insulin administration
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Why Choose Hickby?
👩⚕️ Nurse-led expertise
Delivered by experienced Clinical Nurse Educators with current clinical insight.
🎓 CPD accredited
Training mapped to national professional and clinical standards.
📖 Evidence-based
Aligned with national guidance to support safe, effective emergency care.
“Clear, practical and really engaging training. I feel much more confident with blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration.”
Senior Care Assistant
Residential Care Home
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