A nurse is preparing to administer dextrose 5% in water (DW) 150 mL IV to infuse over 3 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 10 gtt. The nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt\/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Do not use a trailing zero.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To calculate the IV flow rate in gtt\/min, use the following formula:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flow rate (gtt\/min)=Volume (mL)\u00d7Drop factor (gtt\/mL)Time (min)\\text{Flow rate (gtt\/min)} = \\frac{\\text{Volume (mL)} \\times \\text{Drop factor (gtt\/mL)}}{\\text{Time (min)}}Flow rate (gtt\/min)=Time (min)Volume (mL)\u00d7Drop factor (gtt\/mL)\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s the step-by-step process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plug these values into the formula:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flow rate (gtt\/min)=150 mL\u00d710 gtt\/mL180 min\\text{Flow rate (gtt\/min)} = \\frac{150 \\text{ mL} \\times 10 \\text{ gtt\/mL}}{180 \\text{ min}}Flow rate (gtt\/min)=180 min150 mL\u00d710 gtt\/mL\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Calculate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flow rate (gtt\/min)=1500 gtt180 min\u22488.33 gtt\/min\\text{Flow rate (gtt\/min)} = \\frac{1500 \\text{ gtt}}{180 \\text{ min}} \\approx 8.33 \\text{ gtt\/min}Flow rate (gtt\/min)=180 min1500 gtt\u200b\u22488.33 gtt\/min<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rounded to the nearest whole number:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8 gtt\/min<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So, the nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver 8 gtt\/min<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A nurse is preparing to administer dextrose 5% in water (DW) 150 mL IV to infuse over 3 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 10 gtt. The nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt\/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Do not use a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}