Ordered Lasix= 10 mg IM
Available= 40 mg/5ml
Means 8 mg/ml
Desired dose in ml= 10/8= 1.25 ml
Moat commonly used syringe here is 3 ml syringe with the hypodermic needles, generally of the 25 gauge.
4. Ordered: Lasix 10 mg IM Available: Lasix 40 mg/5 ml Desired dose: ml Syringe chosen:...
Ordered: Humulin R 35 units Available: Humulin R U-100 Desired dose: __________ml Syringe chosen:
Syringe choices: 3 mL, 1 mL, 100 unit insulin syringe, or 50 unit insulin syringe Syringe chosen: 9. Ordered: Humulin R 35 units Available: Humulin R U-100 Desired dose: Syringe chosen:
7. The physician ordered amoxicillin caps, 500 mg. Available are amoxicillin caps, 250 mg. How many capsules will you give? 8. The physician ordered Lasix oral solution, 30 mg, to be given as a single dose. Available is Lasix oral solution, 60 mL bottle that contains 10 mg/mL. How many milliliters will you give? 9. The physician ordered Demerol, 50 mg IM. On hand is Demerol, 100 mg per 2 mL. How many milliliters will you give? 10. The physician...
Medication Calculation Worksheeet #2 1. Ordered: Demerol 35 mg IM Available: Demerol 50 mg/ml Give:_________ 2. Ordered: Nembutal 100 mg capsule Available: Nembutal 0.1 gm/capsule Give:_________ 3. Ordered: Kannamycin 200 mg Available: Kannamycin 0.5 gm/2 ml Give:_________ 4. Ordered: Atropine 0.3 mg IV Stat Available: Atropine gr 1/150 per ml Give:_________ 5. Ordered: Ativan 0.5 mg IM PRN anxiety Available: Ativan 2 mg/ml Give:_________ 6. Ordered: Aspirin gr X PO Available: Aspirin 0.3 gm Give:_________ By what route? ___________ 7....
8. Penicillin G Procaine (Penicillin G) 600,000 units IM is ordered for a patient. Penicillin G 1 million units per vial is available in powder form which is to be reconstituted according to the product literature in the following manner: Add Diluent 9.6 ml 4.6 ml 1.6 ml Resulting Concentration of Solution Yields 100,000 units/ml 200,000 units/ml 500,000 units/ml NOTE: For those of you who are NOT in the comp lab for nursing, you can give up to 1 ml...
For the following order, determine the correct amount of medication to draw into a syringe (desired ml dose), then determine which syringe to use from the following choices: 3 ml syringe, 1 ml syringe, 100 unit insulin syringe, or 50 unit insulin syringe Ordered: Humulin R 35 units Available: Humulin R U-100 (100 units/mL) Desired dose: ________ ml Syringe chosen: _________
For the following order, determine the correct amount of medication to draw into a syringe (desired ml dose), then determine which syringe to use from the following choices: 3 ml syringe, 1 ml syringe, 100 unit insulin syringe, or 50 unit insulin syringe Ordered: Humulin R 35 units Available: Humulin R U-100 (100 units/mL) Desired dose: ________ ml Syringe chosen: _________
QUESTION 4 The physician ordered Lasix oral solution, 30 mg, to be given as a single dose. Available is Lasix oral solution, 60ml bottle that contains 10mg/ml. How many milliliters will you give? a 2mi b.3ml c. 10ml d. 4.5ml QUESTION 5 The physician ordered Demerol, 50mg IM. On hand is Demerol, 100mg per 2ml. How many mililiters will you give? a imi b. 10ml O c. O 5ml d.0.75ml
Lasix 100 mg by gastrostomy tube once a day. Available: Lasix 40 mg per 5 ml.
5. A patient is to receive an IV injection of a cardiac medication. The ordered dose is contained in 0.6 mL. The nurse draws up the medication in the syringe and verifies the dose with another nurse. C 4 3 12 15 ! 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 1.00 ML Has the nurse drawn up the correct amount of medication in the syringe? The nurse is preparing to administer heparin 5000 units subcut to the patient....