Table 2.

Example of BNC Insulin Dosing Questions Used in a Questionnaire to Test Knowledge and Application of Information^*

Knowledge Gain	Application of Information
The following are basal insulins: glargine, detemir, NPH regular, aspart, lispro glargine, aspart, glulisine glulisine, aspart, detemir	JN is a 67-year-old female patient admitted to the general surgery unit. She weighs 67 kg and was on the following medications PTA: ASA 81 mg PO daily, atorvastatin 20 mg PO daily, ramipril 10 mg PO daily, metformin 1 g PO bid, glyburide 10 mg PO bid, multivitamin daily. HbA1C is unavailable.
	How would you dose insulin in this patient while NPO? 10 units of NPH at hs 3 units of regular at meal time a and b discontinue oral agents, start correction insulin, low scale no insulin as patient is NPO

^*For publication purposes, definitions are provided here for the abbreviations used in this table. However, for the purposes of the questionnaire, participants were expected to understand the abbreviations, and these definitions did not appear in the questionnaire document. ASA = acetylsalicylic acid; BNC = basal, nutritional, and correctional; HbA1c = hemoglobin A1c; NPO = nothing by mouth; PTA = prior to admission.