Confused about rounding units

Published Feb 5, 2017

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I have a math competency on tuesday. The rules say to round all bolus doses to the nearest 500 units and all infusion rates to the nearest 10 units/hr for heparin drip calculations. I am really confused on what she means. She said she would not ask rounding like that but she did on the last test and google is not helping me. How do I round this way?

Lets say I have a bolus of 5,345.45455, well directions say you cant exceed 5,000 so that is okay but what would i have rounded the rest to if it said not to exceed?