Drug Calculations

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Apr 11, 2019

If you know that 5 ml=1 tsp and you are giving 0.2 tsp, how many ml are you giving?

Wuzzie · Apr 11, 2019

2 hours ago, JahC said:
2.0 tsp/1 5ml/1 tsp how to I get from mcg to ml

Where in the question are they asking for the micrograms?

chare · Apr 11, 2019

1 hour ago, Wuzzie said:
Where in the question are they asking for the micrograms?

They weren't. However, the concentration (75 mcg/mL) was included. While setting up the problem the OP appears to believe that he or she must include every piece of information provided, and is trying to include this information as well.

Wuzzie · Apr 11, 2019

1 minute ago, chare said:
They weren't. However, the concentration (75 mcg/mL) was included. While setting up the problem the OP appears to believe that he or she must include every piece of information provided, and is trying to include this information as well.

LOL! I know that. I’m trying to guide the OP.

JKL33 · Apr 11, 2019

If I may butt in...

4 hours ago, JahC said:
Digoxin 0.2 tsp po bid

4 hours ago, JahC said:
2.0 tsp/1 5ml/1 tsp

See what you did there, OP?

JahC · Apr 11, 2019

12 hours ago, NICU Guy said:
If you know that 5 ml=1 tsp and you are giving 0.2 tsp, how many ml are you giving?

Yes I see exactly what I did and was looking at the wrong information. Thinking the 75 mcg had something to do with the problem and it didn’t. I was to be looking for ml and the answer is 1 ml

JahC · Apr 11, 2019

10 hours ago, Wuzzie said:
LOL! I know that. I’m trying to guide the OP.

Thank you for your guidance! This is my first nursing class and looked to much into the problem and at information that wasn’t needed. I caught my own mistakes and knew mcg doesn’t go into ml. Thinking I needed all of the info in the solution. Thanks for you help

Wuzzie · Apr 11, 2019

19 minutes ago, JahC said:
Thank you for your guidance! This is my first nursing class and looked to much into the problem and at information that wasn’t needed. I caught my own mistakes and knew mcg doesn’t go into ml. Thinking I needed all of the info in the solution. Thanks for you help

That extra information is called a distractor and nursing exams are riddled with them. Personally I think they're evil. Your best bet when you read a test question is to identify them so you can ignore them.

chare · Apr 12, 2019

22 hours ago, Wuzzie said:
LOL! I know that. I’m trying to guide the

My bad.

Wuzzie · Apr 12, 2019

2 hours ago, chare said:
My bad.

No worries! ?

Kallie3006, ADN · Apr 12, 2019

When they taught us DA if you set it up like a fraction and to get to what the question is asking put those 2 measurements at the beginning one in the numerator position and the other in the denominator. Going forward the numerator should be the same measurement as the denominator previous so the measurements cancel each other out leaving you with the numerator in the beginning and the denominator at the end that should match with your very first set up on what the question is asking. This helped me when I was trying to decipher what information was important and what information was in there to try to throw me off.