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Equipment
1. Tray
2. Sterile syringe & needle
3. Sterile forceps in a container
4. Alcohol swabs
5. Medication
6. File
7. Medication

Procedure
1. Take Equipment to the patient’s bedside or room
2. Explain the Procedure to the patient
3. Draw your medication.
4. Expel the air from the syringe
5. Clean the site if dirty (usually, it is in upper arms, thighs, or abdomen)
6. Grasp the area between your thumb & forefinger to tense it.
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7. Insert the needle at about 45 - 60 angle
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8. Pierce the skin quickly & advance the needle.
9. Aspirate to determine that the needle has not one teed a blood
10. After injection withdraw the needle and massage the area with an alcohol swab
11. Chart the amount and time of administration immediately.
12. Take care of the Equipment wash. Sterilize and return to its place
13. Watch for undesired reaction (a side effect of the drug) etc.
NB:
- If repeated injections are given, the nurse should rotate the site of injection so that each
succeeding injection is about 5cm away from the previous one.
- Only small doses (0.5 to1ml) of water-soluble medications should be used
16.3.3 Intra-muscular injection/IM/
Definition: Intra-muscular injection is the injection of medicine into muscle tissue.
To produce quick action on a patient as the medicine given by injection is rapidly
absorbed. Intramuscular injections are often given in the deltoid, vastus laterials,
ventrogluteal and dorsogluteal muscles.
Purpose:
To relieve symptoms of illness
To promote and prevent disease
To treat the disease accordingly
Contraindication:
IM injections may be contraindicated in clients with;

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