Interpret This Order For Me Please

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IV 1000ml D5 1/2 NS 60ml x 24 hours

I read it as D5W 1/2 NS at 60ml hour. Total volume to be given is 1000ml. However, 60 x 24 hours is 1440. So after 1000 was given I hung an extra bag to cover the 440ml

[Daisy4RN]

10 hours ago, Runsoncoffee99 said:

I don’t see how anyone could think 60ml is the volume, because 1000ml is listed as the volume.

The order I wrote is the exact same one I saw in the chart. 

Any RN with experience dealing with admin and/or MDs would get this clarified to CYA no matter what they thought the order meant because it is not written clearly and if anything were to go wrong the RN who hung it would be under the bus in a hot second.

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9 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

How does one know that if it isn’t written/stated. If not written if is an assumption.

60ml x 24 hours is the hourly rate. That part was clear to me,but I guess orders are written differently depending on the setting