🫀WHICH METHOD IS YOUR FAVORITE? #glassampule #nursingskills #nclex #nurse

[marquezdennis]

Here in Germany we just break them without anything. We also don’t wipe them down. I open lots of these daily as I work in the ICU, and never hurt myself.

[ЯнаМиронова-гы]

Honestly, I would just use the wipe. Like, you already used it to clean the ampule, why not use it to open it?
Or even just your gloved hands, if you can avoid cutting yourself.

[Nurse.Life]

I was always taught to open/snap the glass away from you. That way if anything should splinter off it will move away from your body

[meganyoung]

From South Africa here. We rarely have enough stock to use solely for opening an ampule. Thus I learned to use the sterile side of the plastic of the syringe I will use to inject the medication. It helps protect you while ensuring no resources are used unnecessarily.

[bethany]

I used the package my alcohol wipe came in. Poke the ampule head in there and snap away from you. It’s thick enough to offer protection and doesn’t waste other supplies

[valsptsd]

If you invert them immediately after opening you can often get a pressure bubble and it doesn’t leak out. It’s helpful with glass shards also. They tend to stick to the glass sides. ALWAYS use a filter needle. Just kniw, it’s not necessary to put the filter needle in the bottom this way.

[variable]

Break away from yourself to prevent any potential glass shards from hitting you, better safe than sorry

[ranchesjoshuamunros.]

Break the ampule away from you not towards you, to prevent cuts from shattered glasses

[leocervidae]

Ugh had to give myself inhections a while ago and these ampules were the bane of my existence… the injections were fine but those things were ugh. The amount of times I just managed to shatter them between my fingers instead of breaking them. A nurse gave me an actual ampule breaker to help but that for some reason was worse 😭

[KayoEll]

I've never seen the syringe technique! I might have to try that. In residency (20 years ago) I had an attending slice open her hand opening a glass ampule.

I've always wanted to know the details about why we still use these.

[SyndraCosta]

So glad I taught nursing prior to all the you tubes 😊

[lisazhu]

Honestly a lot of nurses just go bare hand

[ohmyitztoni]

This amazes me in the uk we have amuple breakers its kinda like the Synge method but its dedicated to breaking ampules

[MuhammadSoheylAbbasi]

In Pakistan we don't use such things we just break it bear hands

[endlessnessdown]

Either I'm very lucky, or I didn't accumulate enough glass in my system to kill me😂.

[abigguitar]

I’m disturbed that we’re still distributing medications in glass ampules that need to be broken and that can leave glass shards in the medicine.

[.o.o..o.o.]

Theres a lot to use here in the philippines hahahaa.
Syringe
Packaging of the syringe
Hands
Ampoule cutter
Basically anything sterile you can use to cover that part

Sadly the blunt needle is not used here for the most part
Also when opening these and bubbles are present at the top just flick it repeatedly or drag it along a tablle or something

[KookinHaole]

Why are these medications encased in glass?
did the heat of encasing affect the quality of the medication? I feel there are better ways to do this.

[moneysandhu]

Tip: use glass cutting diamond tip— it is like a pen.. use it on the neck and it cuts effortlessly. I do it in my practice.. it is awesome

[tonisalmons]

The glass shards are ridiculously sharp