The nurse is assigned a patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes mellitus who has severe pneumonia. Before dinner, the patient receives a larger than normal dose of her insulin NPH by mistake. The following morning, the patient is hyperglycemic. How does the nurse explain this phenomenon to the patient?
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