Pediatric Nursing Math Tips: Calculating Safe Dosages
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2013
- Luanne Livermore, RN, BSN giving her metrology review. This session is on calculating the safe dosages of medications for various sized infants and children. Revised on 14 December 2013.
You teach like my teacher. Next video, please.
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Can you help me with this problem? Step by step! I am having a hard time with these problems.A nurse has to administer a medication twice a day, at 10am and 4pm. The first dosage is 3/8 oz and the second dosage 2/7 oz, she only has one oz of the medication. Will she have enough for both doses?I said yes
+Due October Yes. (3/8)+(2/7)=37/56 = 0.66071428571. This means you will have approximately 1/3 of an ounce left after administering both doses.
Thank you so much!
I hate to bother you had one more question. I had this one problem I didn't know if I should divide 1.5 into 6ml. a nurse needs to administer 6 ml of X medicine in a solution of 150 ml. At what rate would you set transfusion of the medicine so the patient receives it at 1.5 ml/ min
+Due October As I read this question, the nurse is administering 150mL of a solution that contains 6mL of medication, not 6mL of medication added to 150mL of saline to total up to 156mL of solution. If my interpretation is correct, that means a rate of 1.5mL/min equals 90mL/hr. to deliver all 150mLs that contain the 6mLs of medication. We derive this by multiplying 1.5 by 60 (minutes in an hour).
A simple way to do math like this -- where you are seeking the same value but in different proportions -- is to cross multiply:
1.5 mL X mL 1(X) = 60*1.5 60*1.5 = 90 1(X)=90 X = 90 which means X = 90
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I'm still not sure how are u doing this. Are we doing a proportion 6/156 over 90mins? I what answer did you cone up with not sure if we are getting the same thing
This video lacks Step by step explanation.
Oo hell naw lol this just confused me my instructor is a million times better n she breaks each step down along with the formula first i lost my notes so i tried to watch this n it was no good