Canadian nurses ignore best practice for intramuscular injections

Friday 27 May 2011

A Canadian study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing suggests that 7 out of 10 nurses reported using the dorsogluteal buttock site to administer intramuscular injections rather than the recommended ventrogluteal hip site. Read more on Nurse.com


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