A client with diabetes asks why more than one injection of insulin is required each day. Which is the nurse's best response?

Question

a. "You need to start with multiple injections until you become more proficient at self-injection."
b. "A single dose of insulin each day would not match your blood insulin levels and your food intake patterns closely enough."
c. "A regimen of a single dose of insulin in-jected each day would require that you could eat no more than one meal each day."
d. "A single dose of insulin would be too large to be absorbed predictably, so you would be in danger of unexpected insulin shock."

Answer 1

B
Even when a single injection of insulin contains a combined dose of different-acting insulins, the timing of the actions and the timing of food intake may not match well enough to prevent wide variations in blood glucose levels.