Giving NPH and Regular Insulin?

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If a patient has scheduled NPH at 8:00am and then ALSO coverge with regular insulin (as per FS)...how do I draw up BOTH into a syringe? (because I know I wouldn't give two separate SQ's)

I just never had to do this at the SAME TIME! Sorry if it's a dumb question...I feel I'm suppose to know this by now, I'm graduating in Demember :(

Please HELP! :uhoh3:

On my unit (post op), we do use the other insulins like Lantus and Novolog for patients who come in with known diabetes, but use the regular insulin sliding scale for all our other post op patients. I'm not really sure why we use regular vs Novolog for this though. I'll have to find out tomorrow at work!

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