DRUG CALCULATIONS: WEB PRACTICE

NURSING TUTORING ESSENTIALS

DRUG CALCULATIONS: WEB PRACTICE

MAXIMISING POTENTIAL THROUGH

INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION BY UTILISING UNIQUE AND REVOLUTIONARY

METHODS.

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Your patient's medication orders requires you to administer Keflex 1.5 G in 50 ml of a 5% Dextrose solution. According to the 1. medication manual in your hospital, this medication should be administered over 30 minutes. Calculate drops per minute. Your patient needs 100mg of Spiractin per day ? this is to be divided and administered QID. 2. a. How many mgs would each dose be, b. and how many tablets would you give them each dose.

Medication to be used

Your patient needs 1000 mg of Ciprofloxacin. How many 3. mls would you need to give them via IVT.

Answer

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Please administer 1g of paracetamol and 60 mg of Codeine Phosphate to your 4. patient. a. What would you give. b. and how many tablets would you give.

Medication to be used

Please administer 200mg of 5. Aspirin to your patient. How

many tablets would you give.

Your patient has an IV running of Hartmanns(1000 mls) over 8 hours. However, you come back in the room some time later and notice that the IV has stopped running and only 600mls has 6. been administered to the patient. You call the doctor, who tells you to administer the remainder of the bag over 4 hours. Calculate the mls per hour and drops per minute.

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Over the next 4 hours you must infuse 500mls of normal saline to your 7. patient. Calculate the mls per hour and drops per minute.

Medication to be used

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The doctor reduces the order of an IV that has been running to 30mls/hr. The IV 8. bag indicates that there is 270mls remaining. Calculate the drops per minute.

1g of Panadol QID. How 9. many tablets would you give

per dose.

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Your patient has a suspected morphine overdose. The drug orders are written as Naloxone 2mg every 2-3 minutes if necessary. The maximum you can administer is 10mg. a. How many mls will you 10. administer the first time. b. If you administered naloxone every 2 minutes, how many times would you have administered naloxone to the patient until they reached the maximum dose.

Medication to be used

Your patient is in a lot of pain and the doctor has ordered 15 mg of morphine 11. IM that you must administer. How many mls will you inject in to the muscle of your patient.

Your patient requires 900mcg of anginie STAT. 12. How many tablets would you give them sublingually.

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