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American Career College
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NURS-113 | Beginning Medical/Surgical Nursing
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2021
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Answers: 1. 2 capsules 2. 0.5 mL 3. 1 capsule 4. 3 mL 5. 2.4 mL 6. 1.6 mg 7. 3.6 mL 8. 2.8 mg/ mL 9. 46 gtts/ min 10. 25 gtts/ min 11. 3.3 mL/ min 12. 4.2 mL/ min 13. 104.2 mL 14. 1 mL MSA Practice Questions 1. A patient is prescribed 0.4g of a medication every 8 hours. We have 200 mg capsules available. How many capsules will you administer to your patient in a single dose? 2. A dose of 2g of medication has ordered for a patient. The medication comes in 4g/1mL. What volume will you give the patient? 3. Verapamil is ordered as 480 mg total dose daily. It is administered every 6 hours. How many capsules will the nurse administer in a single dose? 4. Clindamycin is ordered as 0.45 g every 8 hours via IV infusion. How many mL does the nurse need to draw up in the syringe? 5. Your patient is discharged home with an order for a dose of Morphine sulfate 12 mg/ mL IM for pain. How many mL will you administer to this patient? 6. A patient weighing 6.5kg and is prescribed a medication with a dose of 0.5mg/kg/day in equal doses every 12 hours. How many mg will you give per dose? 7. Give Ceclor 45 mg/kg/day p.o. in 3 divided doses for a patient who weighs 66 pounds. A 75 mL stock medication is labeled Ceclor 125mg/mL. How many mL would the nurse administer per dose? 8. How many mg per mL will be infused for a solution of 550mg of a medication in 200mL of saline? 9. The total volume ordered is 550mL N/Saline 0.9% IV to be given over 4 hours. The drop factor is 20. How many drops per minute will be delivered? 10. Order to infuse 1,200 mL of 0.45% Normal Saline at 125 mL/hr. Drop Factor: 12 gtt/mL. At what rate in gtt/min will the IV infuse? 11. A patient needs 1 g of a medication. Each gram of this medication is to be mixed with 10mL of water over 3-5 minutes via IV bolus. After preparing the medication, how many mL per minute would you administer if you do it over 3 minutes? 12. An IV drip is set to 1,500mL over 6 hours, how many mL per minute will the patient receive? 13. A vial of Doxil reads 0.5 g per vial. Instructions say to reconstitute each 12 mg with 2.5 mL of normal saline. How many mL of normal saline will be needed to reconstitute the vial to the recommended concentration? 14. The nurse practitioner orders Azithromycin 250 mg intravenously. Azithromycin comes packaged as 500 mg in 2 mL’s. How many milliliters will you need to administer?