An accredited medicines foundation course to update nurses on current procedures and guidance.
Understanding Medicines in Diabetes Distance Learning Workbook
The accredited distance learning course you need to support a person with diabetes and understand their medicines.
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Course Information
Do you support someone with diabetes? You never know when a person in your care may experience a hypo. Staff need to be confident and trained on current best practice to fully support a person with diabetes. Our Diabetes Distance Learning Workbook allows you to learn at your own pace and provides detailed information on diabetes, its symptoms and available treatment as well as up to date guidance on effectively managing diabetes. The accredited distance learning course you need to support a person with diabetes and understand their medicines.
A great resource for Nurses to use as part of their revalidation.
Course Content:
- What is diabetes?
- Understanding blood glucose and insulin
- Type 1 and type 2 diabetes
- Risk factors for diabetes
- Symptoms of diabetes
- Treatment of diabetes and monitoring
- Types of medicines used in diabetes
- Treatments to reduce risk factors
- Complications of diabetes
- Hypos and hypers
- Detecting and treating complications
- Putting your learning into practice
This course is:
- Accredited by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Developed and presented by qualified Pharmacist trainers
- Compliant with Ofsted/CQC requirements
- Evidenced by a certificate of successful completion
Pricing
Distance Learning Workbook
£15 per workbook We offer the following discounted prices: £12.50 for orders of 10 workbook packs or more. £10 for orders of 100 workbook packs or more. *Prices excluding postage. No VAT charged.FAQs
How long do the courses take?
Most of our face to face courses are half day (3-hour) sessions with a qualified Pharmacist trainer at your venue. Some supplementary courses, such as buccal midazolam & epilepsy or Epipen & adrenaline auto-injector administration, are 2-hour sessions.
Our Foundation e-learning courses take between 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. Competency Assessments and Refresher courses take approximately 1 hour and Bite-size courses take approximately 30 minutes.
Our distance learning workbooks can be completed in your own time and at your own pace.
Are Opus courses accredited?
Yes! All of our courses and services are accredited by CPD, and we are a Skills for Care Endorsed Training Provider.
Where do courses take place?
E-learning courses are completed online and can be used on any internet-enabled device, including Macs, PCs and Ipads.
Distance Learning Workbooks are posted promptly to an address of your choosing. Larger order can be couriered to you or sent recorded delivery.
How many people can attend a Face to Face course?
Our face to face courses are for small groups of up to 10 learners or we can provide training for larger groups of up to 16- whichever works for you!
Manager’s courses are undertaken in smaller groups of up to 10 delegates.
When do I get my certificate?
For our face to face courses, the trainer will mark your assessments and all successful delegates will receive their certificate via email following the training, usually within 7 days.
With distance learning, simply pop your completed assessment in the post or scan it in and email it to us for marking and your certificate will be emailed to you for you to print off and keep.
How long does my certificate last for?
For most courses, certificates have a recommended refresher of 2 years.
Skills for Care guidance recommends that training be updated at least annually and Opus offers online competency assessments which can be used a year after your training for this purpose and refresher courses which can be completed when your certificate expires.