New way to give shots

Nurses General Nursing

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My lovely and talented daughter in law is in nursing school and she is teaching me all kinds of new things.

Today she says that there is a new place to give "butt" shots. Supposedly we are supposed to go ventrogluteal now. Something about not accidentally hitting the sciatic nerve.

Does anyone else know of this? She knows I'm going on allnurses to see who else is learning this. She even showed me the handout from a rapid med type place that she recently went to.

Where can I find out more info about this. Fortunately I'm in ICU now and we don't ever really give shots. But if I float to ER I'm gonna need to know about this.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
VG and no aspiration line up with what I'm learning now. Can I ask how many nurses actually change the needle between drawing up the med and injecting it? Because that's what they're teaching us and I'm pretty sure I have never seen a nurse do that.

I do it every single time. It hurts less going in the patient's muscle if they have a clean needle than one with traces of med on the outside. Especially if it's Phenergan as that burns like hell.

I work in psych, so I give more IMs in one day than many nursing students give during their entire program. The patients don't hesitate to tell you how the shot feels.

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