hey everyone this is Sarah register nurse ran.com and in this video I'm going to go over how to read syringes in this video I'm going to go over five basic syringes that you will be using as a nurse and show you how to read each of them now as a nurse you're going to have a lot of different types of syringes at your disposal and you want to select the correct syringe for the amount of medication that you want to give for instance say that the physician has ordered .5 Mill of morphine the 3cc syringe is the best for drawing that medication up to get the most accurate dose however on the other hand if you're going to give .25 milliliters of a medication the 1ml syringe is the best for that so let me show you the basic parts of a syringe here is a basic 10 mL syringe and anytime you have a syringe you always want to look at it's to capacity it can hold and this one holds 10 MLS now as a side note 10 MLS is the same as 10 CC's so if you hear someone say let's give two CC's it's the same as two MLS just to let you know that now let's go over the basic parts of the syringe okay so here at the top this is our adapter part and this is where you would screw on the needle if you were going to give an IM injection and um now in the hospital we use needle list devices so we would just screw this adapter part onto the IV The Hub of the IV or the line and then we would just give our medication that way now the other part that's important is the barrel of the syringe the barrel has a scale on it and this scale tells us how much of a medication we are going to give based on whatever the doctor ordered now every syringe is different in how it measures that's why I say get familiar with how much your syringe holds which we're going to go over in depth here in a second with each individual syringe and you have a scale so at the top it's zero then you have a line in between that and then you have one then you have another line and then you have a big two and it measures onward now one thing that you want to keep in mind is how to actually measure the fluid that you're drawing up with this plunger so let's go over the other part the plunger I'm going to take it out so you can see it the plunger has a top part part and a bottom part and it also has a beveled area and whenever you're actually drawing up the medication you're going to line the line up that's on the scale of your barrel with this top part of the plunger not the bevel part the top part now let's go over how to read each syringe first we're going to start with the easiest syringe which is the 10 mL 10 cc syringe and as you can tell on this picture each area is measured out so the top part where the top line is 0.5 milliliters then it goes to one then the next line is 1.5 then it goes to two then the next line is 2.5 and so on so this syringe based on how its scale is set up and its capacity it measures by5 now let's test your knowledge based on the yellow line what is the measurement of this syringe and the answer is 4.5 MLS now let's look at the 5 Mill syringe and as you can see on this this has a little bit more lines in between the main measurements than the 10cc syringe and that very top line is zero and then below zero you have 2 then 4 then 68 and then the huge line is one so that is where 1 ml is at then after that you'll count by twos the point twos so it' be 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 and two and then so on it would keep measuring that amount until you hit 5 MLS now let's look at this syringe based on the yellow line what is the measurement of this syringe the answer is 2.2 MLS now let's look at our 3ml syringe this syringe even further breaks down the measurements so you can really draw up a smaller amount of a medication for instance like I said at the beginning of the video this syringe is really good for drawing up a medication if you just have to give 0 five of something so that Top Line is zero and then as you pull the plunger down this syringe goes down by 0.1 so you have .1 MLS 2 34 and then you have half 0.5 then you have 6 78.9 and then 1 and then so on until you get a total capacity of 3 MLS based on the yellow line what is the measurement of this syringe the answer is7 MLS our next syringe is the 1 milliliter syringe and this syringe if you don't have good eyesight you really have to squint to see the little lines but it's really good for giving those medications where you have to give just a little bit like the 0.25 MLS okay on this syringe as you can see um the Top Line will be zero and then this particular syringe will measure down by 0.01 so you have 01 02 03 onward until you hit1 MLS and then it'll just keep on going until you hit a total capacity of 1 MLS based on the yellow line what is the measurement of this syringe the answer answer is25 MLS okay this is our very last syringe and this is a syringe that you will be using a lot whenever you are giving diabetics insulin and it is a syringe that holds a total of 100 units because insulin is measured in units and it looks a little similar to our one milliliter syringe that we went over but it's not measured in milliliters it's measured in units so as you can see with this we have our top line which is zero and this is going to measure in increments of two so the next line would be two units then four units 6 units 8 units and then 10 units and then onward until you would give a total of 100 units based on the yellow line what is the measurement of this syringe the answer is 72 units okay so that wraps up this video on how to read the common syringes you will encounter as a nurse thank you so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more videos