background and objective: bruising is the most common complications that resulting from subcutaneous heparin injection. it causes the limitation of injection area, anxiety, disruption of body image, refusing treatment in patients and the reduction in patients trust in nurse. although different methods were suggested to lessen these unwanted complications, unfortunately none of them could decrea...

abstract background: bruising is an unpleasant result of subcutaneous injection of enoxaparin, which causes physical discomfort, limitation of injection site, patient’s refusal of treatment, and distrust in nurses’ ability. the application of techniques which reduce patients’ fear, anxiety, and physical damage is one of the tasks of nurses. this clinical trial investigated the effect of duratio...

In the hospice ward where patients are in the terminal stages of cancer, it is common practice to give them a subcutaneous injection of pain relievers to reduce their pain and make them more comfortable. Most of these patients are elderly and have low blood pressure or poor veins, which often makes it difficult to inject them because of the calcification at previous injection sites. Thus, subcu...

The aim of this article is to update general nurses’ knowledge of insulin injections. The importance of choosing the optimal injection site for the prescribed insulin regimen and matching the site with the needle length and injection technique is discussed. The appropriate storage of injection devices between use, resuspension of cloudy insulins, and safe disposal of pen needles are also highli...