the Last night I heard from the guy across the table that his b/g is elevated to 300 or more. I learned this morning that he went to the med place and it was 500. He had come in because he felt faint. The FD was on there on another later call and checked him out it the bg was 560. They recommended that he go to hospital emergency which he did. There they gave him an insulin IV and it finally got his b/g down.
The way it works is that the people at the Assisted Living facility can make no changes or additions in the doctors v matter how dire the emergency is. Which is no doubt necessary but what if the doctor is off on a vacation somewhere ad something like this comes us? Even the personnel can not call 911 for the patient is not convinced of the seriousness of their condition the care giver can not call it for them. If the patient is not competent the care giver can at that time. But as far as diabetes is concerned there is absolutely no diabetes education and as a result what the patient knows or what he thinks he knows may be all wrong. . He will probably make the wrong
decision.
In any case my table partner is back and about normal.
You tend to get all kinds of advice at an assisted living facility because of the poor training and poor standards. In house training is given for insulin injection, pill distribution and other actions where the state does not require a RN.
