Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Discuss legal and professional responsibilities associated with giving intramuscular injections within local and national guidance
- Follow procedures for gaining consent and correct documentation
- Describe relevant anatomy and give a rationale for site selection
- List reasons why medications might be given by parenteral route
- Understand the need to manage health and safety risk
- Outline factors influencing choice of needles and syringes
- Understand the correct procedures for preparing medicines to be administered by intramuscular injection
- Outline appropriate methods of communication and the correct positioning of patients maintaining privacy and dignity
Course content
- Legal and professional considerations and responsibilities
- Consent for care and treatment
- Introduction
- Intramuscular (IM) route of administration
- Reasons for the IM route
- Potential complications
- Appropriate IM injection sites – Vastus Lateralis
- Deltoid
- Ventrogluteal
- Dorsogluteal
- Injection volumes
- Equipment
- Skin cleaning
- Needle selection
- Filter needles
- Syringes
- Administration checks
- Medicine preparation
- Reconstituting
- Patient preparation
- Injection procedure
- Z track technique
- Aspiration
- Pain
- Standard precautions
- Hand cleansing
- Sharps safety
- Needle stick injury