INJECTIONS

My sacrifices for medical practice!

Whitney, Maria, Biljiana, and I bravely went to the lab to practice giving intramuscular and intradermal injections on Wednesday after catheter care lab

Background: we have the opportunity to practice injections on each other AFTER

sign a scary waiver that states if we get muscle, nerve, or tissue damage the school or injector is not liable {lucky, we are still whole & free of permanent injury}!

This is a great opportunity so you don’t have to be all nervous giving your first injection, especially intradermal, on a random patient.

It is quite scary getting a 1inch needle stuck into your arm by your clinical mates and even more scary to have a baby needle make a bubble under your skin

But my group did AWESOME & I am so proud of us for overcoming our nerves and fears

STEPS

First, we signed our life away

Second, we demonstrated that we could draw saline solution and give injections to a dumby

Third, we prepared a sterile field, collected all our injection materials, and preformed the 6 rights of administration

Forth, we drew the saline solution & performed normal procedures for preparing an injection site

Fifth, we injected the IM injection & got a cool Band-Aid

Sixth, redo 3 & 4 and injected intradermal & got a cool Band-Aid

Seventh, celebration

The Positives:

Cool Looney Toon Band-Aids

Experience

Personally, got a wheal for my first intradermal injection!

Encouragement and comfort of my friends and colleagues

The Negatives:

Pain of needles

Allergic reaction to the adhesive band-aid

Some not getting a wheal for intradermal

After we all practiced injections and finished the day’s courses.

Whitney & I went to OZ fitness to do a “hardcore” workout

This workout lasted 2.5 hours

I don’t think Whiney will ever go to the gym with me again

We focused on abs, inner/outer thigh, calves, lower back, triceps, obliques, & “the THASS”

Overall, this was a success!

We woke up feeling HORRIBLE

We sat in class the next day stretching our soreness which was literally all our muscles

It was fun & difficult

We will be going Monday whether Whitney wants to or not

Apparently I am too hardcore

Feeling good and sore today

Off to Pullman for Casey’s birthday & the UW vs. WSU basketball game