Safe Use of Insulin: Administration

First aiders are often trained to respond to emergency medical situations that can happen at any time, such as someone choking, fainting, having a seizure or having an allergic reaction. They provide immediate medical care, often until a more experienced medical professional arrives to take over. Therefore it is very possible for a first aider to be able to adminiter insulin.

Click the links to learn more about first aid planning and the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981.

Our Safe Use of Insulin Administration course aims to prevent incidents from occurring by improving learners’ competence in the safe use and administration of insulin. All professionals who work in environments where they need to care for individuals with diabetes would find this insulin administration training course beneficial.

We have a wide range of healthcare training including Statutory & Mandatory Training: Health, Safety & Welfare, Medication Management Statutory and Mandatory Training and Legionnaires' Awareness.

View our full range of online training courses here.

The general guidelines to administering insulin are to pinch the skin and put the needle in at a 45º angle, push the needle all the way into the skin and leave the syringe in place for 5 seconds after injecting. There are many more details and instructions in this course.

Upon completion of this insulin administration course, learners will:

• Understand the risks involved in wrong dose incidents
• Know common errors
• Know administering protocols
• Know about the treatment for hypoglycaemia
• Understand about self-management of diabetes

See all of our courses related to insulin safety, administration, and more here.

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This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.

If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.