Dosage Calculations practice Exam 2 Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions | Latest Updated 2026

Dosage Calculations practice Exam 2
Questions and Answers with Verified
Solutions | Latest Updated 2026



Heparin sodium, 1000 units/hour 10 ml/hr
IV,
is ordered for a patient with a
blood
clot in the leg. It is supplied as
50,000 units in 500 mL of dextrose
and water. How many milliliters
per
hour should be set on the
controller?


A health care provider prescribes 300 ml/hr
cefazolin (Kefzol) 1 g IV three
times a
day to a patient with pneumonia. It
is
supplied in 100 mL dextrose and
water, to run over 20 minutes.
How
many milliliters per hour should
you
set the controller to deliver?

, Your order reads ceftizoxime 33 gtt/min
(Cefizox) 1 g IV piggyback (IVPB)
every 8 hours. The pharmacy
supplies it in 100 mL D5W. You
need
to infuse it over 30 minutes. Using
gravity drip tubing with a drop
factor
of 10, how fast will you run the
piggyback?


You have an order for 4500 ml/hr
fosphenytoin
(Cerebyx) 100 phenytoin
equivalents
(PE) IVPB qid. It arrives in 50 mL
of
normal saline, with a note on the
piggyback bag not to infuse faster
than 150 per minute. How many
milliliters per hour should you set
on
the controller?


You need to infuse corticotropin 63 ml/hr
(Acthar) 25 U in 500 mL D5W IV
over
8 hours. How many milliliters per
hour do you infuse on a controller?