This video will explain in detail what you can expect to do. It will also supplement any existing qualification and experience you have in this subject and procedures, refresh your memory and prepare you for a regulated training course. (Of course, it is not a substitute for a course.)
Qualified Adult Nurse, Claire Carmichael, takes us through different Injection Techniques, when to use them and tips on how to get the best results.
Introduction
Hi, everyone, my name is Claire Carmichael, and I'm a registered Nurse, and in today's video, we're gonna be talking all about injection technique.
And just a little disclaimer, as always, this isn't a training video, this is just more of an information, educational sort of video to show you things that we do out there in practice.
So firstly, there are a few different routes of administration of injections.
Subcutaneous Injections
So the first one is Subcutaneous Injections, or subcut, for short, and this type of Injection, as you can see from this photo here, it sits just below the skin's surface.
You don't wanna be going into muscle with these types of Injections, and with the subcutaneous tissues, there's no blood supply there, so it does take it a lot longer to absorb into the body, so this is more for a slower-release medication type of injection.
So an example of this could be insulin. So any diabetic patient who is administered insulin, they will be doing its subcut, because it's just a slower-working, slower-acting, and slower rate of absorption for what they need for their condition.
About this contributor
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I am a Registered Nurse with over 12 years healthcare experience including: elderly care, orthopaedics, sexual health / family planning, qualified GP nurse, transgender healthcare and now in my new role as an assistant lecturer (as of Nov 2022). I believe that nursing gets a lot of bad press, so I create blogs and vlogs to help anyone considering their nursing career and to create positivity surrounding our profession as I'm so passionate about nursing.
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