Dose Calculations
Order: Amoxicillin 250 mg
Supply: 100mg/ 2mL
What is 5 mL ?
Rationale: 250 mg / 100 mg = 2.5 mg
2.5 mg X 2 mL = 5 mL
What does the acronym ADPIE stand for?
What is Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation?
7.35 to 7.45
What is pH?
What are the 6 Rights of Medication Administration?
What is Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Route, Right Dosage, Right Time, and Right Documentation?
Imaging that creates pictures of inside your body in black and white. Most familiar use is to check for fractures.
What is X-ray?
Order: 1000 mL D5W IV to infuse in 10 hours by infusion pump.
What is the flow rate in mL/hr?
What is 100 mL/hr ?
Rationale: 1000 mL / 10 hours = 100 mL/hr
A tool that diagrams the critical thinking associated with making accurate nursing diagnoses.
What is a Concept Map?
pH 7.27 PaCO2 53 mm Hg HCO3 24 mEq/L
Name this ABG completely.
What is Uncompensated Respiratory Acidosis?
The most dangerous route of medication administration?
What is IV?
Measures your average blood glucose level over the past 3 months.
Also used to see how well you are managing your diabetes.
What is A1C?
Order: 0.9% NaCl solution at 50 mL per hour.
How many gtts per minute should be administered if the tube delivers 20 gtt/mL? Round to the nearest whole number.
What is 17 gtts/min ?
Rationale: 50mL X 20 gtts = 1000
1000 / 60 minutes = 16.6 = 17 gtts/ min
Includes the client's sensations, feelings, a perception of health status. This type of data can only be verified by the affected person.
What is subjective data?
pH 7.35 PaCO2 28 mm Hg HCO3 16 mEq/L
Name this ABG completely.
What is Fully Compensated Metabolic Acidosis?
Antidote for Acetaminophen overdose.
What is Mucomyst?
This is often done to check for a Urinary Tract Infection, Renal problems, or Diabetes.
What is a Urinalysis?
The recommended safe dosage of erythromycin for a child is 20 mg/kg/day in four equal doses. The child's weight is 33 lb. The medication is supplied in 125 mg/mL.
How many mL will be administered for each dose?
What is 0.6 mL ?
Rationale: 33lb/2.2= 15 kgs
20 mg x 15 kgs = 300 mg/day
300 mg/day / 4 equal doses = 0.6 mL per dose
A systematic method for collecting data on all body systems.
What is review of symptoms?
pH 7.30 PaCO2 30 mm Hg HCO3 14 mEq/L
Name this ABG completely.
What is Partially Compensated Metabolic Acidosis?
Steroids, Benadryl, and Epinephrine may be given to reduce the symptoms of this...
What is an Allergic Reaction?
This is measured and monitored by placing a sensor on a client's finger or when necessary, on their forehead, nose, or ear.
What is Oxygen Saturation?
HCP ordered Pitocin at 7 mu/min. You have Pitocin 15 units in 500 mL of NS.
How many mL/hr will you set the infusion pump?
What is 14 mL/ hr ?
Rationale: 7 mu x 60 minutes = 420 mu/ hr
420 mu / 1000 units = 0.42 u/hr
0.42 u/hr divided by 15 units X 500 mL = 14 mL/hr
Provides a basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which you, as a nurse, are accountable.
Focuses on a patient's actual or potential response to a health problem rather than on the physiological event, complication, or disease.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
The pH value is normal and both HCO3 & PaCO2 values are abnormal.
What is Fully Compensated?
A compromised immune system and antibiotic use can put patients at risk for developing this...
What is Super Infection?
A group of laboratory analyses that are used to determine the presence of poisons and other potentially toxic agents in blood, urine, or other bodily substances.
What is Toxicology test?