Ordered: Morphine Sulfate 8 mg/hr. Drug Available: Morphine IVPB 50mg/250 mL of normal saline. What would...

Ordered: Morphine Sulfate 8 mg/hr.
Drug Available: Morphine IVPB 50mg/250 mL of normal saline.
What would the RN set the infusion pump to run at?

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Dose ordered is 8mg/hr

Dose avialble is 50mg/250ml

Formula to calculate the volume to administer,

So 40ml/hr to be administered through infusion pump.

Dose available is 50mg/250ml

That means 50mg morphine is present in 250ml ormal saline

So , 1 mg morphine is in 5 ml

and, 8 mg in 40ml

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