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1. Pediatric rounding rules

   Lewis35 replied to RNSAINT41's topic in Student Assist

   does the rounding volume for medication administration apply to pediatric the same as adults? Because I've seen in some dosage calculation books it asks that pediatric medication volume be rounded to the hundredths place. I find that hard to do when ...

2. Dosage calculation question

   Lewis35 replied to RNSAINT41's topic in Student Assist

   When performing my dosage calculations I do not round anything until the end. When I do round, I round according to the equipment i'm Using in this case it you would use a 3 ml syringe and round to the tenths position since a 3 ml syringe has 0.1 ml ...

3. Dosage calculation question

   Lewis35 replied to RNSAINT41's topic in Student Assist

   In order to deliver 2.27 ml it would require you use two syringes It makes more sense to round the dose. I was taught round the dose according to the syringe in this case it would call for a 3ml syringe which has 0.1 ml marking so the dose would be r...

4. Rounding IV drip calculations

   Lewis35 replied to myknucklehurts's topic in Student Assist

   Ok so what if you have 1.44 ml? We were taught greater than 1 ml round to tenths place and less than 1ml round to the hundredths position. And if the syringe doesn't have 0.01 ml increments how certain are you that it's accurate?

5. Lovenox injection

   Lewis35 replied to Lewis35's topic in Student Assist

   I have another question let's say you have a lovenox vial 300mg/3ml and an order for 1mg/kg injection and the patient weighs 250 lbs would you administer two injections of 0.57ml or one injection of 1.1ml?

6. Lovenox injection

   Lewis35 replied to Lewis35's topic in Student Assist

   This is for homework but I would like to know the answer to both

7. Lovenox injection

   Lewis35 posted a topic in Student Assist

   If you have an order for lovenox injection 1mg per kg q 12 hrs and say this patient weighs 173 lbs available is 80mg/0.8 ml how many ml would you administer? I used dimensional analysis and come up with 0.7863ml rounded to nearest hundredth 0.79ml bu...