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If you are a nurse working in a hospital and administering IV to a patient, how would you manually check to see if the patient is getting the right amount of medicine? Explain step-by-step what you would do if all you had access to was the doctor’s order of 120 ml/hour and IV tubing with a gtt factor of 10 gtt/ml already in use.

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As a nurse working in a hospital and administering IV to a patient, the way to manually check to see if the patient is getting the right amount of medicine is simply by double-checking the label to determine the appropriate dose and to check the drip chamber.

A liquid drug, on the other hand, might be more difficult to administer since the dose must be measured by the person administering it. We recommend using an oral syringe rather than a household teaspoon to measure the amount.

How to resolve medical calculation involving proportion of

  • First Set up a known ratio
  • Set up a proportion with known and desired units. Use x for the quantity that is desired or unknown
  • Cross multiply
  • Solve for x

Solution:

= (120ml x 10gtt)/60min/hr

= 1200/60

= 20gtts/mins

So all that needs to be done is to ensure that the patient is getting 20 guttae (drops) per minute.

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