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Welcome to all the new members. Your first step should be to download the course packet in the files section. It has all the information on the course. The only thing you need to get is the book.

Dosage Calculations for Nursing Students: Master Dosage Calculations The Safe & Easy Way Without Formulas! (Dosage Calculation Success Series) https://www.amazon.com/.../ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i...

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• Jose M Vargas

  For IV med math, is this blue book better or the red one?L

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• Rush Grant

  I just ordered mine

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You have 2g of vancomycin in 500ml bag to infuse over 30 min with a drip factor of 10gtts. How many grams of vancomycin per min is the patient receiving ?

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I’m not sure if this is allowed or not I am a new nursing student and I’m having a hard time remembering medications! What pharmacology flash cards do you recommend me buy? TIA

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• Brianne Beebles Gman

  Creating your own are good. Writing helps instill it in your brain. If that doesn’t work these helped me in school too: (not sure if this is the latest edition)

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Can I get some help with this problem? I know the answer but I don't know how the teacher got to it... Thank you!

Order Oxytocin 10 units IV in 500 ml NS. Infuse 4 m/U/min for 20 minutes, followed by 6 m/U/minute for 20 minutes. What is the rate for:

a. The first 20 minutes _______________

b. The next 20 minutes _______________

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  Do they mean 4 mU/min?

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I am struggling with easy problem. Can you pls check my work ? The patient is to receive 500 mL of D5W over 6 hours . What is the drip rate per minute if the tubing provides 12 gtts per mL?

Question is drip per minute(time) so I must include time (6 hours) in my formula ?

Gtt/min 12gtt/ml x 500/360 min =6000/360=118 gtt/min

A patient who weighs 74 pounds has an order for Advil (ibuprofen) 3.5 mg/kg every 6 hours. How many mg will you give in a single dose?

3,5MG /KG X33.6KG =118 MG 74 PONDS =33.6 KG

A 15 pound child has an order for an antibiotic for 55 mg/kg/every 6 hours. The antibiotic comes as 1 g/25 mL. What is the amount of a single dose?

55MG/KG/DOSE X1kg/2.2lbsx 15 lbsx25ml/1gr x1gram /1000mg 9, 4 ml

The order is to give 60 mg of Garamycin (gentamicin) IM every 8hr. The vial is labeled 80 mg/ 2 mL. How many mL will you give?

60mg x2ml/80 mg =160/80 2 ml I did not put hours because I want to know ml only ?

Give Pronestyl (procainamide HCl) 200 mg. The drug is available as 0.5 g/ mL. How many mL will you give?

200mgxml/05mg =200/0.5

The recommended dose for an antibiotic is 80mg/kg/day. If the patient weighs 38 kg how many mg/day should the patient receive?

80x38 =3040 mg /day

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2.Ordered dose oxytocin 10units in 500ml normal saline

4mu/minutes for firt 20minutes

6mu/minutes for followed 20minutes.

To calculate rate of transfusion.

Total volume 500ml

1unit is equal to 1000milliunits.

That means 10units is 10000milli units.

To calculate ml for infusion

10units *1000=10000milliunits

10000/500=20milli units per ml

20mu/ml=4mu/xml

20x=4mu

0.2 * 30minutes =60ml per hour for first 20minutes.

Then 20x=6mu

0.3*30minutes = 9 ml per hour for second 20minutes.

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