math question

[lake girl]

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?

[mindlor]

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

[cb_rn]

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.

[LPN_2005/RN_10]

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

[Alvindudley]

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

[mindlor]

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.

[caliotter3]

I would question the order because they don't indicate how many units are required, only an amount in teaspoons. What if there are different units per milliliter available in different bottles? How would you know which one was meant?

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

Nilstat (nystatin) is available only in 100,000 units/ml in oral suspension form at this time.

[caliotter3]

But the person answering this would not have knowledge of that information if not given in the question. They would have to clarify the order or look the drug up before answering.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

But the person answering this would not have knowledge of that information if not given in the question. They would have to clarify the order or look the drug up before answering.

YEP! You, as a nurse, knew something seemed missing from the order so you would look it up before calling an MD or the pharmacist, I would suspect. We, as students, are also learning that's an important part of our jobs when giving meds. So, I'm not sure what you're getting at. :)

[cb_rn]

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.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

It is possible this was just miscategorized in the wrong forum. Students help each other all the time, so it's not a question of "doing your own homework." It's a question of asking people who won't get ****** off about it.

One other thing: nurses ask other nurses for help all the time when they need it.