Administering injections is an activity inherent to nursing practice. A critical review of nursing fundamentals texts found that the "proper" procedure was often non-research based and reflected myths, traditions, and out-of-date recommendations regarding the technique. This article is an integrative review of the extensive research conducted by a variety of researchers in health-related disciplines during the last seven decades. The pertinent research is reviewed and critiqued and serves as the basis for a clinical practice protocol. This research-based procedure ensures efficient and effective nursing care related to intramuscular injections.

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What people expect you to know about poison ivy.

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Concept analysis of feeling: a human response pattern.

This article explores the concept of feeling, its historical foundations, and the use of this construct by other disciplines, e.g., philosophy and psychology. Feelings are well known and accepted as integral to human sensations and emotional experiences. One of the basic assumptions within nursing science is the notion that clients and nurses are emotional beings continually responding to the environment in a dynamic mind-body-spirit interaction. Phenomena classified within the taxonomic category of Feeling relate to a human response pattern involving the subjective awareness of information (NANDA, 1989). However, feeling as a human response has remained an underdeveloped and unrefined concept within nursing science. An operational definition is proposed in an effort to facilitate the classification of nursing diagnoses in regard to the holistic nature of persons.

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[Recalling the fundamental principles of the administration of injections: the correct procedure].

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