The nursing student is preparing to administer an intramuscular (IM)injection to her patient.She states to her instructor,"I'm going to administer this medication in my patient's buttocks at the dorsogluteal site." What is the most appropriate response by the instructor?

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The dorsogluteal site consists of the gluteal muscles of the buttocks.Avoid using the dorsogluteal site for IM injections because its close proximity to the sciatic nerve and superior gluteal artery increases the risk of injection into a major blood vessel and damage to the sciatic nerve.Furthermore,the site is difficult to identify accurately in older adults or people with flabby skin.The instructor should advise the student that this is not the appropriate site and elicit another site from the student.Once this is identified,the student can proceed with patient identifiers.

The Nursing Student Is Preparing to Administer an Intramuscular (IM)injection