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I need help with drug calculation.

1. The physician has ordered octreotide (Sandostatin) 0.15 mg IV. On hand: octreotide (Sandostatin) 100 mcg/ mL. How many mL will you give?

2. The order reads: dexamethasone 5 mg IM. The vial label reads: dexamethasone 4 mg/mL. How many mL will you give?

3. The physician has ordered trifluoperazine (Stelazine) 1.4 mg IM. The label reads: trifluoperazine (Stelazine) 2 mg/ mL. How many mL will you give?

4. Physician order: meclizine (Antivert) 50 mg po. The label reads: meclizine (Antivert) 25 mg/tablet. How many tablets will you give?

5. The physician has ordered bentropine (Cogentin) 500 mcg po. The label reads: bentropine (Cogentin) 1 mg/tablet. How many tablets will you give?

6. The patient drank 5.5 ounces of a liquid nutritional drink. How many mL will be recorded on the intake and output sheet?

7. The physician order reads: penicillin 3,000000 units IM. The label reads: penicillin 5,000,000 units/mL. How many mL will you give?

8. Physician order: erythromycin oral suspension 0.3 g po. The label reads 125 mg / 5mL. How many mL will you give?

9. Physician order: furosemide (Lasix) 0.04g IV. The label reads: furosemide 10 mg / mL. How many mL will you give?

10. Physician order: oxacillin (Bactocill) 400 mg IV. The label reads oxacillin (Bactocill) 250 mg / 1.5 mL. How many mL will you give?

11. Order: Ancef 1 g. IV bag has 1 gram / 50 mL and is to be infused over 45 minutes. How many mL/hr should be programmed into the pump?

12. An infusion of 1000 mL of normal saline was started at 1600. The rate was 110 mL/hr. What time will the infusion be completed?

13. Physician order: lorazepam (Ativan) 0.05 mg/kg. On hand: lorazepam 2mg/ 2 mLPatient. weights 126 pounds. How many mL will you give?

14. IV Bag: Lidocaine 1 g in 250 mL. D5W infusing at 50 mL/hr. How many mg/hr

15. The order reads: "500 ml of 5% Dextrose in Normal Saline. Infuse over next 4 hours." What is the mL /hr rate?

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I don't think I am allowed to give away the answers here. There is a formula for the drug computation and for u to answer it correctly u should understand the question.

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Specializes in NICU.

I need help with drug calculation

Do you mean: Here is my 15 dosage problems, can someone do my homework for me?

You need to do the problems and show us how you got your answers, then we will guide you on how to get the correct answers. Doing them for you will not help you on your dosage exams.

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I agree @don1984 plus the problems are not even complicated. I know u can do it @draziga !

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Welcome draziga!

Here at AN we are always willing to help but we WILL NOT do your homework for you. Our community is a professional community that is vested in making nursing the safest profession and helping students become the best nurses they can be.

Calculations WILL BE a normal part of your everyday life as a nurse it is imperative that you learn how to calculate dosages...a patients life is at stake.

Post what work you have done and we will be happy to chime right in and lead you to finding the answer. But will not do the work for you!

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
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Remember first steps convert the dosage to one unit either mg or mcg..

next you divide the ordered by what you have on hand and then multiply by the ml

hope this helps with some of them

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Specializes in Pedi.

Uh, I just did almost all of these in my head. This math is not complicated. OP, you need to do the work and show us where you are having trouble.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Draziga, use this formula:

Want/Have*Vehicle

So, you have an order of 50mg and what's availabe is 100mg/mL (PER mL). Put that into the formula:

50/100*1 = 0.5mL

Now, use this formula for all of your problems. :)

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

When you C&P 15 questions with a generic "I need help," it seems that you might not know the principles for drug calculations. Have you attempted to figure it out yourself? If so, maybe post step-by-step the process that you used so we can see where you went wrong. If you haven't tried it yourself, you need to. Cheating in nursing school *may* help you get a good grade (assuming you're not caught), but it will not help your future nursing practice. And it is cheating to pass someone else's work as your own. You cannot unleash yourself onto the public without knowing how to do this stuff. Side note, years back in this basic chem lab I worked at a station adjacent to a pre-med student. One day he sheepishly asked me, "Can I copy from you?" I said "Absolutely not. You want to be a doctor, you have to know how to do this stuff." ;) Same principle applies here.

And if you are confused about drug calculations overall and can't even figure out where to start, you should talk to your instructor. I think it would help you more overall to have someone physically sitting with you and reviewing the material.

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Totally at random:

9. Physician order: furosemide (Lasix) 0.04g IV. The label reads: furosemide 10 mg / mL. How many mL will you give?

Step 1: Convert the physician's order into milligrams.

Step 2: Set up a ratio equation... If one milliliter has ten milligrams of Lasix, how many milliliters have the amount determined in step 1?

Step 3: Algebraically solve for the unknown quantity in your equation.

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I gotta point out that these are about the simplest questions one could find.

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I've a devious notion to provide the answers to all the posted questions...

but with the caveat that 25% of them will intentionally be WRONG... Take the lazy way through and get a C or check all of my work to figure out where I'm messing with you and probably get an A.

Seriously, there aren't any short-cuts to this stuff. Regardless of the obvious ethical issues with submitting someone else's work as your own (even in math, it's still plagiarism...), you're never going to learn it by inspection... you'll only get it by *doing* the hard work yourself.

To quote The Kingston Trio...

You got to walk, that lonesome valley

You got to walk it by yourself

Oh nobody else

Can walk it for you

You got to walk it by yourself

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