IM Injections

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Specializes in Antepartum, Labor & Delivery, PostPartum.

Hi Nurses and Student Nurses,

I have a question for any of you out there. In nursing school are they still teaching how to give IM injections in dorsogluteal area? Those of you in the hospital/outpatient setting, are you giving injections in the dorsogluteal area?

I know of a nursing school not teaching it anymore and the hospital I work at advises against it.

Thanks in advance,

Jen MSN, WHNP-BC, C-EFM, RNC-OB

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I don't give DG injections, due to the proximity to nerves and blood vessels.

VG or deltoid. Occasionally VL.

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Specializes in Home health, Addictions, Detox, Psych and clinics..

Four years ago in my LPN program, we were taught to never use the dorsogluteal site. We were taught to utilize the ventrogluteal site when giving IM injections in the gluteal area.

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

Dorsogluteal is no longer a recommended IM site. That has been the case at least since I was in nursing school 8 years ago.

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Specializes in Antepartum, Labor & Delivery, PostPartum.

Thanks to all of you!!! That's what I thought and I just wanted to clarify that before I passed it on to the nurses I work with in the office.

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