Hi everyone! Nursing student here and the other day in clinical I was giving a patient 4 mg IVP morphine for pain. Well I know I was supposed to dilute it and I know im supposed to give it over 5 minutes. What I didn't understand was the dilution. My instructor had me grab a 5ml syringe and fill it with 4 mls of saline then I took the 4ml bottle of morphine which was 4ml/4mg and fill the syringe until it got to 5 and then that was it? So was the patient not getting the full dose or was it able to mix in with all the saline? I just thought I would need a 10 ml syringe the math doesn't make sense to me.