This week at my career experience I was given the opportunity to be trained to give intramuscular injections. My mom was the first to step up and be the first real person I could practice on. I learned how to fill the syringe with the proper amount of medication (B12) which my mom gets every two months for a B12 deficiency. After filling the syringe with the medication I then cleaned the area with an alcohol wipe, placed two fingers from her shoulder and put the needle in three fourths of the way inter her muscle. I thought being my first time doing this my mom would complain about it hurting but surprisingly she said she didn't feel it at all. After finally giving a real patient the first injection I have ever done I learned from our PA how to read a pelvic and spinal x-ray. In the x-ray she showed me that the lady it was taken on was actually diagnosed with bone cancer months prior and we could visually see the masses in her x-rays. This week was overall one of the best I have had during this experience.
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