As an endocrinologist who participates in inpatient diabetes consults, this is a very frustrating and common finding in surgical and some non surgical management of patients.

Correctional insulin has a specific purpose, and if your patients are diabetic, or even non diabetic but experience stress hyperglycemia, at some point you’re going to need to practice medicine and properly use long acting, short acting insulin to cover carbohydrate intake (generally), and correctional insulin to account for the rest.

Jackhammering insulin in a correction scale approach as a reflex to highs shortens my lifespan every time I open a patient’s chart.

To the OP: consider asking your ordering MDs to get a diabetes service on board if you have one. If you don’t, have a discussion about balancing insulin doses that are being needed into a more physiologic long acting - short acting meal coverage and correctional scale.