Mariah3

I test in 8 hours. Good luck to us all!

Yes, I had IV access. She gave it to me in the hip because she asked me which I would prefer. I know that the pain relief lasts longer in the muscle than in the IV so I told her IM in response to her question. She gave me the choice. What she did NOT tell me was that she had mixed the drugs in 10 ml because she assumed I would choose the IV route. Most people don't want a stick when they don't have to have one. But knowing it was already mixed for IV, she had already made the choice and should not have asked me my preference. I only found out it was 10 mil after the fact. She took so long injecting it that I flat out asked her "Hey how much fluid did you just inject in me?" I did refuse her care after that and the supervisor wrote her up and moved me. I still can not believe any nurse would put 10 ml in my bottom, but she did!

I am new to the site and couldn't resist this thread, even though it is a bit old. I am an RN student but I was in the hospital recently myself. After surgery, the RN came into my room with a syringe to give me my requested pain meds. She did not tell me she had prepared the demeral and phenergen for IV administration already and had diluted it in 10 mil of fluid. I did not notice the size of the syringe and she asked me if I wanted it in my hip or in the IV. Knowing that it would last longer in the muscle, I selected that. She gave the injection but I began to think something was amisss when she was taking a very long time after inserting the needle to inject the meds. When she finished, I asked her how much fluid she put in my hip and she replied 10 (TEN) ml, explaining that she intended to give it via IV. Now do you want to talk about a sore rear end or what?? All she had to do was tell me it was diluted for IV and I'd have said fine and taken it that way. She did not seem to realize she had done anythng wrong in putting that much fluid in my hip. I was amazed that a RN could not know that. I was also amazed I could walk at all the next day! Also the medicine did not absorb properly with that volume and I was in pain for the next 4 hours till I could get another shot. (Shaking head in amazement!)