Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!

SoutheasternNurse

Practice Calculations

1.Order: Calcium Gluconate 1g; add to IV stat
Supply: Vial of liquid labeled 10%

2. Order: Magnesium Sulfate 500 mg IM
Supply: Ampule labeled 50% (2 mL size)

3. Order: 1300 mL LR to run in over 12/h... Tubing drop factor is 15
gtt/mL - Flow rate is: _________gtt/min

4. Order: 2.5L of NS @ 125mL/h. Drop factor 20 gtt/ml. What would be
the flow rate you count?___________gtt/min

5.Order: 1 L D5NS to run from 1000 - 1800 via infusion pump. What
would the flow rate be?____________

6.Order: Digoxin 500 mcg IV stat
Supply: Dig 0.5mg/1mL
Infuse _______mL

7. Order: IV Heparin @ 800 U/h
Supply: 25,000U in 250 mL D5W. How many mL/h?
Set pump @ ____________mL/h

8. When you arrive in above room, pump is set at 12mL/h. You recheck
the Dr. order and last PTT lab work and Heparin protocol and find that
this is incorrect. How much (too much) - (too little) is your patient
receiving? And when pump is set at 12mL/h, patient is receiving
_____U/h

9. Order Amoxicillin 550mg po
Supply: Amoxicillin 250 scored tabs
Give ______________

10. IVPB ordered for your client - Infuse Gentamycin 80 mg in 50cc NS
over 30 min. Calculate IV flow rate _________cc/h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Answers

1. 10mL
2. 1mL
3. 27gtt/min
4. 42gtt/min
5. 125cc/h or 125mL/h

6.1mL
7. 8mL/h
8. 400u/h Too much - Getting 1200 u/h
9. Comes to 2.2 therefore answer is 2 tabs

10. 100cc/h

 

SoutheasternNurse

Stop by the Bullentin Board & Post or Respond to Topics

www.angelfire.com/ns/southeasternnurse