Nurse Teaching: Medication Safety Precautions for Long Acting Insulins

Currently, the popular practice is to give the patient a long acting basal insulin that will control the blood sugars steadily over a period of 24 hours. Along with this, giving rapid-acting mealtime insulin along with a correction dose to regulate blood sugar levels after meals will be more effective. This is like the action of insulin normally produced by your pancreas to help control blood sugar levels between meals. In this post, we discuss medication safety precautions for long acting insulins. Nurses can use this teaching as an example of patient and caregiver education to add to nursing notes or educate patient and caregiver.