NURSING 3X04 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Needlestick Injury, Hook Gauge, Diluent
11 Sep 2016
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The route of medication administration is the path by which a drug comes in contact with the body. Parenteral means administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract. Medications administered by the parenteral route enter body tissues and the circulatory system by injection. Injected medications are more quickly absorbed than oral medications; and parenteral routes are used when patients are vomiting, cannot swallow, and/or are restricted from taking oral fluids. Failure to inject a medication correctly results in complications such as an inappropriate drug response (e. g. , too rapid or too slow), nerve injury with associated pain, localized bleeding, tissue necrosis, and sterile abscess. Currently there is increasing evidence that addresses practice guidelines for administration of injections. The literature has clearly identified the ventrogluteal site as best suited for intramuscular (im) injection. However, nurses were reluctant to use this site because of difficulty in anatomically locating it and their belief that it was not safe.
