Managing Milly’s BGLs

Course Overview

Milly requires her support workers to help her measure her glucose levels because she has a condition causing her glucose level to drop quickly and unexpectedly. It is important for her support workers to know how to accurately use her blood glucose meter and what to do to treat her glucose readings when very low, including use of the emergency injectable medication in the GlucaGen HypoKit.

Course aim

Provide Milly’s support workers with the knowledge and skills to support Milly to maintain her glucose levels in a safe range, using a blood glucose meter, food and the GlucaGen HypoKit.

Pre-Requisites

Current certificate in Medication Management as required by employing organisation.

* * See Course Materials (top) for the practice equipment required for Lesson 1 and Lesson 2.

Turn sound on to hear PowerPoint narrations and videos.  Work your way through each step in both lessons and fully complete presentations and videos to the end to move through the course. The pass mark for each Quiz is 95%.

To start the course:

Using D4D App: Click! ‘Start course’. Scroll to the bottom of the page for ‘Materials’ for information about resources required for the lesson.

Using Online course link: Click! on the link. Scroll to top and Click! on ‘Materials’ for information about resources required for the lesson.

Support

Phone 0412 102 408 for support during South Australian business hours (9am – 5pm).

After hours support 5 – 8pm week nights and 10am – 4pm weekends via email: office@edhealth.com.au.