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You technically won't be insured if you are using your car for business purposes. Our uni told us to talk to our insurers and tell them what we would be doing to see how they would cover it. If you aren't actually being paid for the work I wonder if that still be classed as "work" I'd just call your insurers and see what they say, or have a read through the small print in your contract and it may give you some more information.

This is great. It is slowly beginning to make sense, dose/volume of diluent=concentration, seems a lot simpler when you take all the extra nonsense. I think the more questions I come across throughout the book will aid me. Thanks everyone!

No, I do not yet fully understand why. I would take a guess to an explanation based on the above threads to, but it would probably be wrong. If it's not too much bother, I would appreciate an explanation. Or my book might explain it soon, failing that I start uni next month, although I am keen to learn as much as I can just now.

Great! It's these little bits that I think will trip me up until I learn them. Thanks

The answer in the book is 2mg/ml, which if you take into account the question states "approximate" as well as what GrnTea said "if you calculate it, 500mg/250cc vs 500mg/260cc, the difference isn't clinically significant" It now makes sense but as I assumed you were to include the glucose when it mention "infusion fluid" I'm not sure what constitutes "clinically significant", but am sure I will find out. I did try to do it the waya Loveofrn did by adding the two concentrations together. Which is what set me off on the mission to find out how I could have been so far out. Loveofrn, I will change my username, most sites have a policy that you username shouldn't be identifiable to you, I may have overlooked that advice on setting up a profile. Thanks again everyone.

Thanks folks! Im sure things like this will be explained when I get to uni next month, but it's great to hear know how to work it out now. And hopefully will help me get through the rest of the book. I appreciate you time. Thanks again.

Hi folks, basically I have a two part question from the book How to Master Nursing Calculations, which I can do the first part but can not get my head around they author has arrived set the answer for the second. "10ml of sterile water is added to a vial containing 500mg of clarithromycin (Klaricid®). What is a) the concentration of the reconstituted drug in mg/ml? And b) the approximate concentration of the infusion fluid in mg/ml if the 10ml solution is added to a 250ml bag of 5% glucose." Litle bit of background. I haven't started my first year yet, I start in September, but it's been a while since I've been in education, so I got this book to refine my mathematics, which it has helped tremulously, along with a few other to help prepare me for uni. I've slowly been working my way through the tests and am dedicated to not moving on to the next section until I get 100% of the current sections correct or at least understand how the answer was obtained. Part a I understand to be 500mg/10ml= 50mg/ml the book says this is correct and I'm happy I understand this part. Part b be confuses me. Surely the total volume of the bag would be 260ml, but I'm not sure if to include the 5% glucose which I think means 5g/100ml. I know now some questions add extra info to trip the student up and this one seems to do it job. Thanks in advance Andy

I've been working my way through the book "How to Master Nursing Calculations" 2nd ed by Chris Tyreman. Theres over 500 test questions ranging from simple addition and subtraction to drug dosage calculations. And it's talks you through each section clearly with regular short test with three full mock tests. Great book, along with "The Student Nurse Handbook" I feel a lot more prepared for stating university in September.

I had a similar conversation with a friend recently and we both agreed that if you write things out on paper you remember then more accurately than typing. I am starting uni in September, and looking at getting a new laptop or tablet so I've been doing a lot of thinking before I spend. I remember my higher physics teacher made us write out his slides in class and then homework was at least to write them out again for tidying with. I really think this method helped, I passed and was very pleased, and had a lot of notes too! I think if I went to a laptop/tablet in classes I would type them up and forget about them. Andy