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Assignment and Prelab To Participate in The Lab. Objectives

This document provides instructions for a lab on administering injections to horses. Students will practice intramuscular and subcutaneous injections using syringes loaded with blue liquid injected into chicken breasts and oranges, respectively. To participate, students must complete a health assignment, review a PowerPoint on injections, do a prelab assignment with questions to identify injection tools and methods and describe the steps for each type of injection, and answer post-lab questions about injection administration.

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Assignment and Prelab To Participate in The Lab. Objectives

This document provides instructions for a lab on administering injections to horses. Students will practice intramuscular and subcutaneous injections using syringes loaded with blue liquid injected into chicken breasts and oranges, respectively. To participate, students must complete a health assignment, review a PowerPoint on injections, do a prelab assignment with questions to identify injection tools and methods and describe the steps for each type of injection, and answer post-lab questions about injection administration.

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Injection Lab and Prelab

Name: ____________________________ Date:_____________ Score ___/25


Today you get to own your own herd of horses. This means determining what kind of
medical care they will require, including injections. You will be practicing intermuscular
and subcutaneous injections in this lab. You must complete the health
assignment and prelab to participate in the lab.
Objectives
1. I can identify the tools and methods used in performing injections.
2. I can describe what I am doing while demonstrating an injection.
3. I understand how injections can be used to meet specific animal health management
goals.
Procedure
1.) Complete the equine health assignment due 1/24
2.) Review the injections PowerPoint
3.) Complete the prelab
4.) Review safety
5.) Demonstration
6.) Proceed with lab
7.) Check off both types of injections with an instructor.
8.) Answer post lab questions fully. Due end of class 1/29.
Prelab Questions
Teacher Check Off

1. Identify all of the tools used when performing injections:

2. What injection methods are most commonly used (list 4):

3. What injections will we be performing tomorrow? Why?

4. What are the steps of an IM injection?

5. What are the steps of a SQ injection?

6. How do injections help us reach animal health management goals?


Injection Lab and Prelab

Lab Activity
Intramuscular Injection
a. Properly load 1 cc(mL) of blue liquid into the syringe provided
b. Prepare the injection site (Chicken Breast)
c. Follow all the steps from prelab question 4.
d. Once you feel confident, call over a teacher and have them watch while you walk
them through the steps and perform the injection.
Teacher Check Off
Subcutaneous Injection
a. Properly load 1 cc(mL) of blue liquid into the syringe provided
b. Prepare the injection site (Orange)
c. Follow all the steps from prelab question 5.
d. Once you feel confident, call over a teacher and have them watch while you walk
them through the steps and perform the injection.
Teacher Check Off

Post Lab Questions:


1. Why are sanitary conditions so vital when administering medications of any type?

2. What are the 2 common units of measuring dosage?

3. When giving a horse an IM injection list two places it is most commonly


administered.

4. What types of injections are usually given IM?

5. Which is the injection type that would give the quickest results for absorption of
medication? Explain why this is. (Hint: it is one that you did not administer today!)

6. Compared to an IV injection, would the medication given in the muscle travel faster
or slower? Why?

7. What is the purpose of the subcutaneous injection compared to others?

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