Site seeing!
Degrees of Safety
Method to the Med-ness
Vial decisions
After the stick
100

The intradermal Tubercullin PPD test is given in this site

What is the inner aspect of the forearm?

100

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?

100

The IM Z track method prevents this.

What is medication irritation to the subcutaneous tissue?

100

This must be done prior to drawing medication from a vial.

What is scrubbing the vial septum with alcohol and allowing to dry. 

100

This is where used needles and syringes should go immediately after use.

What is an approved sharps container?

200

The preferred subcutaneous site for heparin

What is the abdomen?

200

The angle the nurse would use for a subcutaneous injection for a 21 year old female weighing 108 lbs

What is 45 degrees?

200

While administering an intradermal injection, this should form under the skin

What is a bleb or wheal?

200

A multidose vial will expire this amount of days after opening.

What is 28 days. 

200

Sharps containers should be changed at this point

When they are 3/4 full.

300

This injection site can accommodate only up to one ml of medication

What are the Deltoid or Subcutaneous injections.

300

The angle used when administering an IM injection in vastus lateralis of a 4 year old.

What is 90 degrees

300

When inserting an intradermal needle, the CDC recommends that the nurse keep this part of the needle up

What is the bevel?

300

What is the safest time to draw up an injectable medication?

As close as possible to administration time

300

This is often called the "sixth" right of medication administration.

What is DOCUMENTATION. 

400

The preferred injection site for children under the age of three

What is vastus lateralis?

400

The method the nurse would use for an IM injection for a  male patient weighing 300 lbs

What is Z-Track Method

400

When giving a subcutaneous injection to the abdomen the nurse needs to consider this? 

What is avoiding the umbilicus by at least two inches?

400

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?

400

Nurses should reassess and document pain within this amount of time after administering an IM pain medication.

What is within 30 minutes.

500

This dorsal gluteal site is no longer recommended for this reason

What is location too close to the siatic nerve?

500

The angle used when administering a intradermal injection

What is 5-15 degrees?

500

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?

500

Which item must be sterile each time a multi-dose vial is accessed?

Both the needle and syringe

500

A nurse sustains a needlestick after administering an injection. What is the correct follow-up?

Wash the area, report immediately, and follow exposure protocol