math question

Question;

Dosage to give NILSTAT SUSPENSION 1tsp. PO. Dosage avavliable; NILSTAT 100,000 units/ml in 60 ml bottle. How many ml do you give?

answer? anyone?

5ml per tsp so give 5 ml

It would be really nice if people that posted questions would post what they think the answer is as well.

I'm not being nasty at all, so don't take it that way.

I don't mind helping and there are obviously other people on this forum that feel the same but to anyone, not just you OP, that wants help, at least show us you tried or what you are thinking. I think you'll find that more people will use a gentler tone to "correct" or educate you than if you just ask for an outright answer without showing you put any thought into it.

Lake Girl: There is a very helpful book called Math for Nurses by Mary Jo Boyer. The book was very helpful during my LPN and RN schooling. I also carry it in my nursing bag at work. It's very easy book to read and refer to when doing dosage calculations!

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Math-for-Nurses/Mary-Jo-Boyer/e/9780781753722

desired/have x vehicle(volume) you will never be wrong

Wow.

Some of these replies have been fairly nasty. There was some confounding information supplied with the problem that was supplied to purposefully trip up a new student.

Lighten up peeps life is short.

It would have been odd to have a math problem on homework that you wouldn't be able to answer without more information. It was just worded to be tricky and see if you knew how many ml were in a tsp. The number of mls in a tsp wouldn't change no matter how many units of drug were in the med. If it was an order in a patient's chart you could question it but in the context of being a homework problem, it was totally answerable with the information provided in the original question.

As an aside at my hospital there are some meds that don't have units listed, you just will have an order for 15ml of drug Z (like mylanta or what have you) that come from the standard issued bottle of medication from the pharmacy. Good practice, perhaps not, but its just how the pharmacy and eMAR here are set up for a very few select medications and if I'm not mistaken they are all available OTC. I'll have to start paying attention to see for sure.

Don't hate. People are flipping out over an assumption. We are taught not to assume. This test question was for a entry test for the nursing program(not homework). This question was not given an answer by me, because an answer would lead to an assumption by others who read it. If you did not want to answer it, which you didn't, why do you care if that question is there at all? How did that affect you at all? You have been so scarred by the bullying in your field, it is showing big time. I hope I find a place to work where this lateral violence does not exist. God bless you (anyway) and all that helped. Wow, first do no harm??? Thank you for the kindness of some here, it really lessened the blows. Happy Mothers day, jezze.