Nursing Students General Students
Published Jan 14, 2007
Joni's Mom
165 Posts
Hi,
I'm in my 3rd semester program and we are learning I.V. push administration.
My question is
Doctor's order:
6mg morphine
On Hand:
10 mg/2ml morphine
the dose = 1.2 ml morphine
drug book states 4 - 10 mg diluted in 4 - 5 ml H20 for injection over 5 min.
Please let me know how to figure how much to inject per min. My answer is 1 ml / min to inject is this correct? actual number is (5.2ml/5 min = 1.04 ml/min)
Daytonite, BSN, RN
1 Article; 14,604 Posts
Yes, that would be correct. How are you going to figure out 1.04mL per minute as you are pushing this into the patient's vein? Or, is this just a problem you are working out on paper and not a real patient?
If this were a real patient, I would pull up the 1.2mL of Morphine and add enough bacteriostatic water to bring the total in the syringe to 6cc, pull up a chair, sit down, and then push 1.2mL into the patient over 5 minutes. That would be 0.2mL (one increment marking on the syringe) every 10 seconds while watching the second hand of my watch.