 Wacom to nursing school explained in this video on how to inject an intramuscular Medication how to give an intramuscular injection? So first of all, I've already prepared my medication and make sure that you check all the patient rights as you go through the medication Preparation once you arrive to the patient's room. Of course, you're going to introduce yourself Do your medication check and then get ready for the administration by exposing the appropriate site for the intramuscular injection and performing your hand hygiene as well as putting on your gloves Remember to always have a an alcohol wipe or two available as well as a band-aid And I'll show you a little trick here on how to handle the band-aid so that you can Get a little bit more familiar with how easiest to do this because you're going to need both hands to administer the IM injection So what I do with the band-aid here is I open it up And I peel one end of the adhesive and I stick the band-aid on my clean glove So that way I have it handy and I don't have to fuss around With opening up the band-aid wrapper as the maybe there might be a little bit of blood coming from the injection site So here I have used this 3 ml syringe with a 25 gauge by one inch needle and Typically that would be used maybe for a vaccination administration in the deltoid It could be used on smaller children for vastus lateralis or even gluteus medius muscles if the patient is old enough to do that So before I select my injection site, of course I'm going to always tell the patient what I'm going to do and then Once I've picked the injection site I clean in a vigorous motion from the center Outward to carry any germs from the inside away from the injection site then I want to remove the cap and Stabilize the muscle and the skin in whatever way is Easiest and I move my hand aside so you can see and this I am we're going to give a 90 degrees So we're going to pretend to hold a dart and give the patient a warning here. It comes one two three poke in a dart-like motion and then with your non-dominant hand you can push the plunger Stabilize with draw the needle right away cap it for safety and Then use the band-aid that you have handy for Securing the site get rid of your Needle and your sharps in the appropriate container and that is the administration of an intramuscular Injection at 90 degrees. Thanks for watching. Also check out the other videos about Subcutaneous medication injection as well as insulin administration. Thanks for watching. See you soon