Chapter 30 See the accompanying Nursing Care Plan for Regina Sauder for an example of the nursing process for medication administration.You are scheduled to give an intramuscular injection in the ventrogluteal site and remember learning that it should be administered using the Z-track technique. When you mention this to the nurse in the hospital who has been taking care of your patient, she tells you there is no reason to use the Z-track technique. You remember your instructor telling you to use the Z-track technique. What should you do?You are caring for two patients and have just completed giving medications to the first when you realize that you gave her the medications prescribed for your other patient. What should you do?

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Phlebotomy Essentials

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ISBN:9781451194524

Author:Ruth McCall, Cathee M. Tankersley MT(ASCP)

Publisher:Ruth McCall, Cathee M. Tankersley MT(ASCP)

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Chapter 30

See the accompanying Nursing Care Plan for Regina Sauder for an example of the nursing process for medication administration.
You are scheduled to give an intramuscular injection in the ventrogluteal site and remember learning that it should be administered using the Z-track technique. When you mention this to the nurse in the hospital who has been taking care of your patient, she tells you there is no reason to use the Z-track technique. You remember your instructor telling you to use the Z-track technique. What should you do?
You are caring for two patients and have just completed giving medications to the first when you realize that you gave her the medications prescribed for your other patient. What should you do?

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An IM injection technique known as the Z-track method is utilised to stop medicine tracking (leakage) into the subcutaneous tissue (underneath the skin).

During the treatment, a large needle is injected into the muscle as skin and tissue are pulled and tightly held. The skin and tissue are freed after the drug has been administered. A very little hole or trace is left in the tissues after a needle has been inserted. It is possible for trace amounts of medication to occasionally seep backward down this channel and enter other tissues. The treatment gets its name from pulling the skin and tissue prior to the injection, which makes the needle track to resemble the letter "Z." Medication leaks are prevented by this zigzag track line.