GRCC HEALTH EDUCATION LEARNING LAB
IV RATES #1
1. Administer 1000 ml of 0.9% NS over 8 hours. The drop
factor is 10 gtts/ml. The flow rate would be____gtt/min?
2. Administer 500 ml of D5W over a 12 hour period as KVO. The microdrip provides 60 drops/ml.
Flow rate is___gtt/min ?
3. To administer 1.0 Liter of Ringers Lactate over 6 hours you would give____ml/hr. The gtt factor is 20 gtts/ml.
4. The dr prescribed 1000 ml of D5W to infuse over 24 hrs.
With a drop factor of 15 gtts/ml you would give ___gtt/min ?
5. The dr prescribed 1000 ml of D5/0.9% NSS to infuse at
75 ml/hour. The drop factor is 15 gtts/ml. You would
give ____gtts/min?
6. Ringer's Lactate, 500 ml, is to infuse at 50 ml/hr. The drop factor is 10. You would set the rate at ____gtts/min ?
7. To deliver 1000 ml of D5/0.45% NSS over 4 hours the nurse would have to administer ____ml/hour?
8. To deliver 500 ml of D5W over an 8 hour period the nurse would set the flow rate to deliver ____ ml/hour?
9. To deliver 250 ml of NSS over a 5 hour period the nurse should set the flow rate to deliver ____ml/hour?
10. A patient is to receive 500 ml of 0.45% NSS with 20 mEq of KCL to run over 8 hours. The drop factor is 20 gtts/ml . The nurse would give ____ml/hour?
11. The dr prescribed 100 ml of albumin to be absorbed over 2 hours. The drop factor is 15 gtts/ml. You will give ____ml/hour?
12. A patient is to receive 1000ml of NSS with 20,000 U of Heparin over 24 hours. The drop factor is 60 gtts/ml. The nurse would give _____gtts/min?
13. A patient is to receive 350 mg of Aminophylline in 150ml of D5W over a 1 hour period of time. The drop factor is 15gtts/ml. The nurse would give_____gtts/min?
14. Administer 100 ml of an antibiotic solution via a volume control set over 30 min with a microdrip. Give____gtt/min
1. 21 gtts/min, 20.8
2. 42 gtts/min, 41.7
3. 167 ml/hr, 166.7
4. 41.7 ml/hr, 10.4 gtts/min
5. 18.8 or 19 gtts/min
6. 8.3 gtts/min
7. 250 ml/hr
8. 63ml/hr, 62.5
9. 50 ml/hr
10. 63 ml/hr
11. 13 gtts/min, 50 ml/hr
12. 42 gtts/min
13. 38gtts/min
14. 200gtts/min
Updated on 07-OCT-02
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