Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
How many of you are initiating insulin in primary care now? How many of you would like to do that if you had the right training and skills? Those of you who have already trained, was the training sufficient and did you get the support you need in order to gain confidence in your new competencies?
I trained six or seven years ago, with the support of Sanofi Aventis, who sponsored the Warwick-based 'Insulin for Life' course in our locality. As I was working in a very large practice and had a large number of patients with diabetes, I readily gained plenty of experience. However, I now realise how limited that training was, and for some time I only ever felt able to use the long-acting insulin analogues for my patients.
Following a second part to this training a year later, I grew in confidence, and I felt able to initiate a wider variety of insulins. Of course now, we are being constantly pressured to use the older human variety of insulin, because they are much cheaper.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/diabetes-modern-age
I trained six or seven years ago, with the support of Sanofi Aventis, who sponsored the Warwick-based 'Insulin for Life' course in our locality. As I was working in a very large practice and had a large number of patients with diabetes, I readily gained plenty of experience. However, I now realise how limited that training was, and for some time I only ever felt able to use the long-acting insulin analogues for my patients.
Following a second part to this training a year later, I grew in confidence, and I felt able to initiate a wider variety of insulins. Of course now, we are being constantly pressured to use the older human variety of insulin, because they are much cheaper.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/diabetes-modern-age