Quick!

What needle gauge would you use for a vastus lateralis injection in a pediatric patient?

Not sure?

No worries, we’ve got you covered today with our injection site cheatsheet.

This cheatsheet is used in the following lessons (click below to view):

• Injection Sites and Insulin Mixing (IM, SubQ, Intradermal) 
• Injection Sites and Needle Gauge

I’ll never forget my first injection on a patient.  I was a nursing student and I was sure they were going to SCREAM in pain.

It didn’t go as bad as I thought.

You are gonna give a “handful” of injections as a nurse it’s important to know the difference in locations, landmarks, gauges, and lengths.