Where (exactly) to stick a needle into your patients bum.
By impactEDnurse • Aug 15th, 2010 • Category: the nurses desk:, tips and tricksToday a new-graduate nurse taught me how to give an intramuscular injection.
No, really….
After studiously watching one of our senior staff give an intramuscular (IM) injection, the new-grad informed us that, in fact, she was not taught to give injections into the upper-outer quadrant.
This is were I have been sticking my needles for many years now, [...]



