{"id":133448,"date":"2024-08-22T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=133448"},"modified":"2024-08-22T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T23:23:11","slug":"a-nurse-is-preparing-to-administer-0-9-sodium-chloride-1-l-iv-to-infuse-over-8-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/a-nurse-is-preparing-to-administer-0-9-sodium-chloride-1-l-iv-to-infuse-over-8-hr\/","title":{"rendered":"A nurse is preparing to administer 0.9% sodium chloride 1 L IV to infuse over 8 hr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A nurse is preparing to administer 0.9% sodium chloride 1 L IV to infuse over 8 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing set is 15 gtts\/mL. Th nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt\/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Use a leading zero if applies. Do not use a trailing zero.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To calculate the flow rate in gtt\/min, you can use the following formula:Flow rate (gtt\/min)=(Volume to be infused (mL)\u00d7Drop factor (gtt\/mL)Time (minutes))\\text{Flow rate (gtt\/min)} = \\left(\\frac{\\text{Volume to be infused (mL)} \\times \\text{Drop factor (gtt\/mL)}}{\\text{Time (minutes)}}\\right)Flow rate (gtt\/min)=(Time (minutes)Volume to be infused (mL)\u00d7Drop factor (gtt\/mL)\u200b)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Volume to be infused:<\/strong> 1 L = 1000 mL<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Time:<\/strong> 8 hours = 8 \u00d7 60 minutes = 480 minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Drop factor:<\/strong> 15 gtt\/mL<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Now, plug in the values:Flow rate (gtt\/min)=(1000 mL\u00d715 gtt\/mL480 minutes)\\text{Flow rate (gtt\/min)} = \\left(\\frac{1000 \\text{ mL} \\times 15 \\text{ gtt\/mL}}{480 \\text{ minutes}}\\right)Flow rate (gtt\/min)=(480 minutes1000 mL\u00d715 gtt\/mL\u200b) Flow rate (gtt\/min)=(15000480)\u224831.25 gtt\/min\\text{Flow rate (gtt\/min)} = \\left(\\frac{15000}{480}\\right) \\approx 31.25 \\text{ gtt\/min}Flow rate (gtt\/min)=(48015000\u200b)\u224831.25 gtt\/min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rounding to the nearest whole number:Flow rate\u224831 gtt\/min\\text{Flow rate} \\approx 31 \\text{ gtt\/min}Flow rate\u224831 gtt\/min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Answer: 31 gtt\/min<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Explanation:<\/strong> The nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver 31 gtt\/min to infuse 1 L of 0.9% sodium chloride over 8 hours using tubing with a drop factor of 15 gtt\/mL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A nurse is preparing to administer 0.9% sodium chloride 1 L IV to infuse over 8 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing set is 15 gtts\/mL. Th nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt\/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Use a leading zero if […]<\/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-133448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133448","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=133448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}