I was perusing another nursing forum and stumbled on a discussion about how programs handle injections during skills labs and evaluations. My skills group has a practice lab where we practice drawing the "medication" (i.e., 0.9% NaCl) and injecting into mannequins/mimic pads (or hotdogs with "skins" during the intradermal, for bonus humor). On evaluation day our instructor watches the entire process from vial to injection individually. We perform the injections on a partner who then has their turn, all with supplies right out of the packages of course. We also swap the syringes we prepared with our partner, so we're always being injected with something we drew (with supervision) ourselves. Subcut was back of the arm, transdermal was the forearm, IM was ventrogluteal.
The discussion I saw was mostly about the IMs, but also about the whole general idea. People were outraged about the ventrogluteal IM! Like, suggestions for the student to get a lawyer and general freaking out. Is how my program does things atypical?