{"id":138,"date":"2015-04-19T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:06:39","slug":"drawing-medication-for-injection-video","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/videos\/injection-videos\/drawing-medication-for-injection-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Medication for Injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/125385647\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea177308a6d7010497372' value='69ea177308a6d7010497372'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea177308a6d7010497372' value='Show Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea177308a6d7010497372' value='Hide Transcript'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea177308a6d7010497372' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-red-button  '   style=\" color:#fffcfc;\">Show Transcript<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea177308a6d7010497372' > <\/p>\n<p>Begin by washing your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Some institutions also recommend wearing protective gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Check the label to make sure you are using the correct medication and the correct concentration.<\/p>\n<p>Then check the expiration date and the lot number.<\/p>\n<p>For certain medications, the lot number needs to be recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Remove the cap from the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Examine the rubber stopper for defects such as small cores or plugs torn from the stopper.<\/p>\n<p>Inspect the contents for any foreign particles and to detect any changes in the color and consistency of the medication.<\/p>\n<p>Place the bottle on a flat surface.<\/p>\n<p>Insert the needle straight in and inject some air, equal to the volume of medication you will be withdrawing into the syringe.<\/p>\n<p>Invert the bottle and withdraw slightly more medication than you will need.<\/p>\n<p>Send air bubbles to the top of the syringe by flicking the barrel with your fingers.<\/p>\n<p>Inject the bubbles back into the vial and make final adjustments to the volume of medication.<\/p>\n<p>If you will not be injecting the medication immediately, safely recap the needle.<\/p>\n<p>With ampules, gently flick the tip to shake all the medication down into the base.<\/p>\n<p>Grasp the tip with gauze and snap the neck off, pointing it away from yourself to avoid small glass fragments.<\/p>\n<p>Holding the ampule, carefully insert the needle and withdraw the proper dose.<\/p>\n<p>This may be easier if the ampule is stabilized on a flat surface.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/634"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}