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A nurse is caring for an infant who weighs 11 lb 4 o. What is the infants weight in lb? - Answer-11.25 lb A nurse is preparing too administer gentamicin to a client who weighs 165lb. The medication reference recommends administering 2mg/kg IM every 8 hr. How many mg should the nurse plan to administer per dose? - Answer-150 mg A nurse is preparing to administer ampicillin 50 mg/kg/day Po divided in equal doses every 8 hr to a child who weighs 39.6 lb. Available is ampicillin oral suspensio...

A nurse is preparing a lorazepam 2 mg IV bolus 20 min prior to surgery. Available is Lorazepam 4 mg/mL. How many mL should the nurse administer? - Answer-0.5 mL A nurse is preparing to administer vasopressin 5 units IM to a client. Available is vasopressin 20 units/mL. How many mL should the nurse administer? - Answer-0.25 mL A nurse is preparing to administer penicillin G benzthine 1,200,000 units IM.. Available is penicillin G Benzedrine 600,000 units/mL. How many mL should the nurse adm...

3 different methods for dosage calculation are? - Answer-ratio and proportion formula (desired over have) dimensional analysis 5 types of Calculations are? - Answer-solid oral medication liquid oral medication injectable medication correct doses by weight IV infusion rates 1 mg = ? mcg - Answer-1 mg = 1000 mcg 1 g = ? mg - Answer-1 g = 1000 mg 1 kg = ? g - Answer-1 kg = 1000 g 1 oz = ? ml - Answer-1 oz = 30 ml 1 L = ? ml - Answer-1 L = 1000 ml 1 tsp = ? ml - Answer-...

A nurse is preparing to administer phenytoin 15 mg/kg IV to a client who weighs 154 lb. Available is phenytoin 50 mg/mL. How many mL should the nurse administer? - Answer-21 mL A nurse is preparing to administer methadone 0.1 mg/kg IV bolus to a client who weighs 104 lb. Available is methadone 10 mg/mL. How many mL should the nurse administer? - Answer-0.47 mL A nurse is preparing to administer methylprednisolone acetate 0.05 g IM. Available is methyprednisolone acetate injection 80 mg/mL....

A nurse is preparing to administer phenytoin 300mg PO daily. Available is phenytoin suspension 125 mg/ 5mL. How many mL should the nurse administer? - Answer-12 mL A nurse is preparing to administer dextrose 5% in water 1,000 mL IV to infuse over 3 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 10gtt/mL. The nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number) - Answer-56 gtt/min A nurse is preparing to reconstitute Vancomycin....

1 kg = ? Ibs - Answer-2.2 Ibs 1 mg = ? mcg (mircograms) - Answer-1000 mcg 1 kg = ? gram - Answer-1000 gram 1 g = ? kg - Answer-0.001 kg 1 g = ? mg - Answer-1000 mg 1 mg = ? g - Answer-0.001 g 1 g = ? mcg - Answer-1,000,000 mcg 1 mcg = ? g - Answer-0.000001 g 1 mg = ? mcg - Answer-1000 mcg 1 mcg = ? mg - Answer-0.001 mg 1 L = ? mL - Answer-1000 mL 1 mL = ? L - Answer-0.001 L 1 oz = ? mL - Answer-30 mL 1 tsp = ? mL - Answer-5 mL 1 Tbsp = ? mL - Answer-15 m...

ATI Dosage Calculation and Safe Medication Administration QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

Rights of Administration → ::- client, medication, route, dose, time, and documentation Types of Prescriptions → ::- routine, standing, single, stat, PRN, and now Nursing Process - Medication Administration → ::- assessment/data collection planning implementation evaluation Incident Report Documentation → ::- required demographic information objective/factual account of what happ

AC → ::- before meals PC → ::- After meal