Findings. Nurses are preferentially using the dorsogluteal site over the ventrogluteal
site, and site selection varied significantly with age, level of preparation, years in
nursing and knowledge of nerve injury as a complication with the selected site.
Conclusions. Nurses are not preferentially using the ventrogluteal site for intramuscular
injections to adults as recommended in recent nursing literature. Additional
research on the safety of a properly mapped dorsogluteal site is needed.