Diabetes Awareness and Care
Diabetes Awareness and Care
This half-day diabetes awareness training course will allow your staff to be equipped with all the relevant knowledge and an understanding of Diabetes. The course is suitable for Health Care Assistants and Registered Nurses. Where required, and with delegated authority, the course can be adapted to include simulated insulin administration.
Course Length. 3.5 hours
Introduction
This half-day training course explores this common condition, it’s prevalence and the methods of management. This face-to-face CPD Training Course is both theoretical and practical in nature, allowing learners to explore in-depth the causes of diabetes, the different types and effects of diabetes, and current treatments available.
Course Contents
What is diabetes?
How does diabetes affect a person?
Statistics and prevalence
Causes of diabetes
Prevention of diabetes
Glucose and insulin
Diabetes types
How HBA1C tests monitor blood sugar
Effective advising, care and support
Diabetes treatments and types*
Blood glucose monitoring (BGM)*
Insulin administration*
*awareness for all staff only. Where required and authorised, the course can be adapted to include simulated competencies.
Course Outcomes
Your staff will be equipped with all the relevant knowledge and an understanding of Diabetes, how to be aware of the symptoms, side effects and also how to treat the various types of diabetes.
Successful completion of this training course will result in the award of a CPD accredited certificate covering all aspects of the above course contents.
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