Questions
1. Order: Compazine 10 mg, PO, qid. Available: Compazine 5 mg tablets.
How many tablet(s) would you give per dose? - -----ANSWER---->2
1. Order: Compazine 10 mg, PO, qid. Available: Compazine 5 mg tablets.
How many tablet(s) would you give per dose? - -----ANSWER---->5
1. Medication order: Nafcillin 0.5 G, IM, q6h.
Drug available: 250 mg/ml Nafcillin Sodium for injection, USP.
How many milliliters of Nafcillin would you give per dose? - -----ANSWER---->2
1. The medication order is to administer Ancef 5 mg/kg. The child weighs 90 pounds. The maximum
dosage is 750 mg.
How many milligrams are ordered for the child? - -----ANSWER---->204.55
1. Mix 10 units of oxytocin in 1000 mL NS.
Start infusion at 25 mL/hr.
Do Increase by 5 mL/hr every 10 minutes until uterine contractions are 2 to 3 minutes apart
not to exceed 44 miliunits/min.
Maintain total IV fluid volume at 100 mL/hr.
How many miliunits per hour will be delivered? - -----ANSWER---->250
, 1. Mix 10 units of oxytocin in 1000 mL NS.
Start infusion at 25 mL/hr.
Do Increase by 5 mL/hr every 10 minutes until uterine contractions are 2 to 3 minutes apart
not to exceed 44 miliunits/min.
Maintain total IV fluid volume at 100 mL/hr.
How many miliunits per hour will be delivered? - -----ANSWER---->3
1. Order: 20 mg of a medication by mouth tid
Patient weight: 132 pounds (60kg)
Safe dose range: 1 to 3 mg/kg/day
This is a safe medication order.
A) True
B) False - -----ANSWER---->A) True
1. Medication order: Capoten 100 mg
Available: Capoten 0.1 g tablets
How many tablets will you administer? - -----ANSWER---->1
1. Prefixes can be added to a basic unit of measurement to indicate a larger or smaller unit of
measurement than the basic unit. What does the prefix kilo indicate?
A) One hundred
B) Ten
C) One thousand
D) One tenth - -----ANSWER---->C) One thousand