Health Services Safety Investigations Body (2026b) Insulin: supporting safe self-administration in vulnerable patient groups in the community.
A staff member approached the nurses’ station with a separate drug chart for a patient taking insulin.
...management (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2026), and preventing type 2 diabetes (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2017) which is a chronic condition characterised by insulin...
...vasopressors (to help manage blood pressure) atropine (to help manage slow heart rate) glucagon (which increases the amount of calcium available to the system and strengthens heart contractions) high-dose insulin...
For full active resuscitation Plan: • Antibiotics as according to Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) protocol • Dexamethasone 6mg/day • Monitor blood glucose; give insulin if raised and refer to diabetes...