Site seeing!
The intradermal Tubercullin PPD test is given in this site
What is the inner aspect of the forearm?
This is the angle the nurse would use when administering a IM injection for a young adult male weighing 150 lbs
What is 90 degrees?
The IM Z track method prevents this.
What is medication irritation to the subcutaneous tissue?
This must be done prior to drawing medication from a vial.
What is scrubbing the vial septum with alcohol and allowing to dry.
This is where used needles and syringes should go immediately after use.
What is an approved sharps container?
The preferred subcutaneous site for heparin
What is the abdomen?
The angle the nurse would use for a subcutaneous injection for a 21 year old female weighing 108 lbs
What is 45 degrees?
While administering an intradermal injection, this should form under the skin
What is a bleb or wheal?
A multidose vial will expire this amount of days after opening.
What is 28 days.
Sharps containers should be changed at this point
When they are 3/4 full.
This injection site can accommodate only up to one ml of medication
What are the Deltoid or Subcutaneous injections.
The angle used when administering an IM injection in vastus lateralis of a 4 year old.
What is 90 degrees
When inserting an intradermal needle, the CDC recommends that the nurse keep this part of the needle up
What is the bevel?
What is the safest time to draw up an injectable medication?
As close as possible to administration time
This is often called the "sixth" right of medication administration.
What is DOCUMENTATION.
The preferred injection site for children under the age of three
What is vastus lateralis?
The method the nurse would use for an IM injection for a male patient weighing 300 lbs
What is Z-Track Method
When giving a subcutaneous injection to the abdomen the nurse needs to consider this?
What is avoiding the umbilicus by at least two inches?
Drawing up medication with 1 needle and then switching to another needle for injection will prevent this.
What is discomfort and irritation to the tissue?
Nurses should reassess and document pain within this amount of time after administering an IM pain medication.
What is within 30 minutes.
This dorsal gluteal site is no longer recommended for this reason
What is location too close to the siatic nerve?
The angle used when administering a intradermal injection
What is 5-15 degrees?
When administering a subcutaneous injection, this method will prevent the nurse from accidentally injecting into the muscle
What is grasping and lifting the fatty tissue?
Which item must be sterile each time a multi-dose vial is accessed?
Both the needle and syringe
A nurse sustains a needlestick after administering an injection. What is the correct follow-up?
Wash the area, report immediately, and follow exposure protocol