Injection Kits: Key Tools for Safe and Effective Training

Doctors and nurses must know how to administer injections to patients for the purpose of delivering medications or sedatives. That is why all medical students must undergo sufficient training in administering injections to patients for various reasons and under different scenarios. 

New trainees may feel nervous about administering injections to patients as they learn the proper techniques to use because they don’t want to make a mistake that hurts or injures them. After all, one mistake made during an intramuscular injection could cause devastating health consequences for patients.  

Fortunately, there are dedicated injection training kits available to teach students about the proper injection techniques to use on patients. These training kits are a safe and effective way to train students because they eliminate all risks for patients. Some of the tools and materials found in these injection training kits include the following:

• Injection pad trainer
• Alcohol swabs
• 1 Quart Sharps container
• 1 ml safety syringe with 5/8” needle
• 1ml glass ampoule with sterilized water
• Sterile gauze pads
• A manikin injection training arm

Injection kits do not include any actual medication. The glass ampoules included with injection kits are filled with sterilized water to simulate real medicines. All the labeling on the outside of these items will look real, but it is merely a simulation. 

So, when your medical students extract the liquid from the glass training ampoule and inject it into the patient, the medicine is water. You don’t even need a real patient to practice on because the simulation is not meant to treat or cure any particular health issue. 

The Importance of Using Simulation Kits for Injection Training

Simulated injection training kits are the best way to safely and effectively train students, whether they practice on real patients or manikins. New students should practice injecting the arms of manikins rather than real human patients to ensure they understand all the critical techniques and steps involved. Then, once they obtain more confidence in performing safe and effective injections, they can start practicing on human patients in a clinical setting. 

Below are the top four ways that injection kits can help medical students and professionals become better at administering injections without risking harm to any patients. 

2) Injection Training Arm

New students can practice on an adult injection training arm to simulate the experience of administering injections into a human arm. The training arm has realistic skin material that feels soft and smooth to the touch. It also features replaceable vinyl skins, latex veins, fingerprints, and an intramuscular injection site for the injections. Everything about the arm is simple and easy for students to use to learn and practice their injection techniques. 

The injections made at the intramuscular injection site into the latex veins will feel and act very real. Students will be able to feel the pop effect as they stick the needle into the vein, just like they would with a real human vein. Other accessories included in this injection training arm kit include a blood donor set, syringe, needle, infusion set, fluid supply bags, carrying case, and instruction manual. 

2) Simulated Patients

Simulated patients are professionally trained to perform as patients to help students learn how to administer treatments and procedures. A simulated patient possesses the knowledge and skills to accurately react to the treatments and actions administered to them in a clinical setting. Everything from their physical to emotional responses will accurately reflect those that real patients would portray if they were given the same treatments. 

Medical students can use injection training kits to practice administering injections to simulated patients. This will give students the experience of communicating and treating real human patients without any risk of harming them. Remember that injection training kits only contain water-filled ampoules rather than real medication. Therefore, the solution injected into the simulated patient’s arm will have no health effect on them. 

In the end, the simulated patients will provide feedback and advice to the students after the simulation so that they know how to improve themselves next time. Simulated patients will also know the appropriate injection techniques, so they will know whether the proper techniques were used or not. 

3) Build Decision-Making Skills

Emergency intravenous injections require quick, informative decisions in stressful, fast-paced environments. Medical students can feel overwhelmed by the stress involved in administering emergency injections when they have little experience at doing so. Injection kits help reduce their stress and build their confidence so they can learn to perform these injections flawlessly under tense situations.

Without stress or fear, students can learn to make better decisions in similar emergencies in the future. Instead of worrying about hurting patients, the students can focus on the decisions they need to make to administer injections correctly and effectively. This knowledge and experience will suit them well when they finally administer injections to actual patients because they will have the confidence to perform without letting stress and pressure stop them.  

4) Learn to Avoid Errors and Complications 

Novice students are bound to make mistakes the first time they administer injections. The benefit of using injection training kits is that they allow students to comfortably make mistakes without the fear of adverse repercussions for their patients. Students can repeatedly use their injection training kits to practice and perfect their injection skills so that they can learn to reduce errors and complications. 

The smallest mistake during an injection can result in infection, poor medication delivery, or damage to internal tissues. This is one more reason why it is better for students to practice on manikins before practicing on simulated patients or actual patients. Even though training kits contain placebo medication, a student can still cause damage to a human patient if they don’t administer the injection properly. So, repeated practice on simulated arms is highly recommended to teach students to avoid errors and complications.

Conclusion 

Simulated injection kits are the key tools for students to receive safe and effective injection training. The kits contain all the essential elements necessary to administer an intramuscular injection in a clinical setting. Pristine Medical can supply you with the injection kits and additional accessories you need to structure your injection training lesson plans well.