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INTRODUCTION: While it is recommended that ventrogluteal (VG) region shall be preferred due to its being safer in intramuscular (IM) injection administration, when we examine the clinical administration, it is seen that dorsogluteal region is mainly preferred by nurses. Accordingly, the present study was carried out to examine the reasons for the nurses not to prefer the VG region in IM injection administrations. METHODS: The present descriptive-type study was carried out with 100 nurses who worked in a university hospital in Konya province between June - July 2018. A questionnaire form was used to collect data. In order to be able to carry out the study; the written institutional consent, the ethics committee approval and verbal consent of participants were received. The SPSS packaged software was used for evaluation of the data and number, percentage and average values were calculated in analysis of the data.  Results: It was seen that average age of the nurses participating in the study was 31.96±6.94, average working year was 10.41±6.18, 75% of them were female, 53% of them were bachelor, 50% of them worked in internal medicine clinics, 84% of them used dorsogluteal region in IM injection, 72% of them never performed an injection administration to ventrogluteal region. It was determined that the nurses didn't use the VG region because they were unaccustomed to the VG region (40%), didn't have enough information about the region (33%), didn't know the region determination (31%), and the patients were unaccustomed to the region (30%). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Nurses use the traditional region DG more because of the lack of knowledge and experience of the VG region,

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