Use of Hochstetter’s technic for intramuscular injection by nursing professionals at Health Basic Units

Abstract

Introduction: The ventral gluteus region is pointed for scientific evidences by the proper region for medicines muscles administration because there are few nervous and vessels, easy delimitation and causes less pain compared others human body region. Meanwhile this region is under used by de nursing professionals. Objective: Contributing to disseminate of the use ventral gluteus region for muscle injections and encourage multipliers of this practice, to verify the knowledge of muscle injections on ventral gluteus region among nursing professionals, update this knowledge basing on the detected needs and evaluating the perception of the participants about the procedure after a training classes. Method: action-research with quantitative and qualitative analyze. The sample was composed by nurses and nursing technical or aide of three Basic Health Unit. Results: In the pretest 26,5% among the professionals had referred know the anatomic region of the minimum gluteus muscle, 75,5% cannot describe, 14,7% considered itself able to performance the ventral gluteus injection and 10% considered itself able to teacher this technique. After the training classes through a posttest 98% among the interviewed people showed knowing the minimum gluteus region, 69% had describe those correctly, 67,7% considered itself apt to use those technic and 47% referred could teacher it. Conclusions: The results showed the respondents have a few known of the ventrogluteal region before the capacitation. The workshop increased the number of adepts to the technic proposed among the nurses and the nurses technical and aide.