CAN SUPPORT WORKERS GIVE INSULIN?
CAN SUPPORT WORKERS GIVE INSULIN?
YES THEY CAN!
Jayne Lehmann is a Diabetes Nurse Specialist and Credentialled Diabetes Educator in South Australia with extensive experience in diabetes care, education and support of people with intellectual, cognitive and/or psycho-social disability. She is widely known for her advocacy for disability support workers to be trained so the people they support with diabetes can be prescribed injectable diabetes medications for better health.
Jayne said, “I get phone calls all the time from interstate disability organisations, support workers, parents and family members desperate to have support staff trained to provide quality diabetes care, including insulin administration.”
“That’s why I am a NDIS provider and the course is on-line for more people with a disability to get better diabetes care.”
Support workers can legally give diabetes injectables once the correct framework is in place because they are sub-cutaneous injections. The NDIS High Intensity Skills Descriptors for sub-cutaneous injections are used to guide the quality and safety framework required for this delegated model of care.
Click! to read Jayne’s blog on it not being illegal for support workers to be trained to give sub-cutaneous injections.
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