How to Draw Up Medicine From a Vial TUTORIAL

Sometimes you will need to requite medicine to your child while yous are away from the hospital. The medicine may be within a syringe when the staff member gives it to you, or yous may have to withdraw the medicine from a small vial (bottle). Information technology is important to go along the medicine sterile (germ free) and to withdraw the correct amount from the vial. The post-obit steps will help yous withdraw medicine from a vial correctly.

Supplies needed

Syringe with needle
Vial of medicine
- Name of medicine ________________________________
- Your dose is__________. The strength of your medicine is __________. For each dose, draw ___ml into the syringe.
Alcohol prep pad
Actress needle (if needed)

Procedure

Wash your hands with soap and water and dry well, or use an alcohol-based hand-cleaning production. Come across "Exercise y'all know… Make clean hands."
Gather your supplies.
Remove the cap from the vial, exposing the rubber stopper. Exercise not shake the vial unless you have been told to do and then. You may have a vial that requires you lot to mix the medicine. Y'all tin can practice this by pushing down the acme of the vial to release the cork. Then, gently roll the vial betwixt your palms to mix the medicine well.
Clean the rubber stopper with an booze prep pad for 7 seconds. Permit the stopper air dry without blowing air on it.
Remove the syringe from its bundle. Twist the attached needle to make sure it is firmly in place.
With the needle cover still on the needle, pull dorsum on the plunger and pull air into the syringe. The amount of air pulled into the syringe should be the same as the dose of medicine the md has prescribed.
Advisedly pull the needle encompass straight off the needle. Do non bear upon the needle.
Place the medicine vial on a flat surface and insert the needle directly through the condom stopper.
Button the plunger of the syringe down and inject air into the vial. The air injected into the vial will allow the medicine to exist withdrawn more easily.
Keeping the needle in the vial, turn the vial upside downward and make sure the needle is in the liquid medicine.
Slowly pull back on the plunger and let the medicine enter the syringe, filling up to the dose the doc prescribed.
Bank check for air bubbling in the syringe. To remove the air bubbling, gently tap the syringe until the bubbles ascension to the acme of the syringe butt. And so push the plunger, forcing the air out of the syringe. Over again pull the plunger back to the number that matches the prescribed dose. Double check for air bubbles. Echo these steps if needed.
Double check that the right dose is in the syringe.
Take the needle out of the vial. Advisedly epitomize the needle.
Throw the vial away.

When a needle needs to be changed

If a needle is needed to give this medicine to your kid, you will have to remove the needle you used to withdraw the medicine from the vial. You lot will replace the used needle with a new, sterile needle. The new needle will exist smaller than the ane used to withdraw the medicine from the vial.

Hold the syringe with the attached needle pointing up. Pull the plunger in the syringe back until a modest air bubble is seen.
Open up the new needle packet. Yous may lay the syringe and quondam needle downward to do this.
Twist the onetime, recapped needle off of the syringe. Do non lay the syringe down while the needle is off.
Take the new needle out of the package and twist the needle firmly onto the syringe.
Uncap the needle. Do not touch the needle.
While holding the syringe with the newly attached needle pointing up, push the plunger up until a tiny drop of medicine is seen on the needle tip. There should not exist any air bubbles in the syringe after you push the plunger upward.
Recap the needle until y'all are set to requite the medicine to your kid.
Discard the used needles in a patient sharps container. Encounter "Do you know… Throwing away sharp objects safely."

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