Drug Calculations

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

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.

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?

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

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

22 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

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

My bad.

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.

14 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

That extra information is called a distractor and nursing exams are riddled with them. Personally I think they're evil

What is evil is having a multiple choice with 3 wrong answers that are possible answers if you do the equation wrong.