{"id":140058,"date":"2024-09-18T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=140058"},"modified":"2024-09-18T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:27:55","slug":"a-nurse-is-preparing-to-administer-ceftriaxone-250-mg-im-to-an-adult-client-who-has-a-gonococcal-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/18\/a-nurse-is-preparing-to-administer-ceftriaxone-250-mg-im-to-an-adult-client-who-has-a-gonococcal-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"A nurse is preparing to administer ceftriaxone 250 mg IM to an adult client who has a gonococcal infection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A nurse is preparing to administer ceftriaxone 250 mg IM to an adult client who has a gonococcal infection. The label on the vial indicates to reconstitute each vial with sterile water 2.1 mL to yield ceftriaxone 350 mg\/mL. How many mL of the reconstituted medication should the nurse administer? (Round the answer to the nearest hundredth. Use a leading zero if it applies. Do not use a trailing zero.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The correct answer and Explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To determine how many mL of the reconstituted medication the nurse should administer, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. Understand the Problem:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      \n
    • You need to administer 250 mg of ceftriaxone IM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • The vial is reconstituted to a concentration of 350 mg\/mL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • You need to find out how many mL of this reconstituted solution contains 250 mg of ceftriaxone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        \n
      1. Set Up the Calculation:<\/strong>
        Use the formula:
        [
        \\text{Volume to administer (mL)} = \\frac{\\text{Desired Dose (mg)}}{\\text{Concentration (mg\/mL)}}
        ]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
          \n
        • Desired Dose = 250 mg<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Concentration = 350 mg\/mL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
            \n
          1. Calculate the Volume:<\/strong>
            [
            \\text{Volume to administer} = \\frac{250 \\text{ mg}}{350 \\text{ mg\/mL}}
            ]
            [
            \\text{Volume to administer} = 0.7143 \\text{ mL}
            ] Rounding to the nearest hundredth:
            [
            0.7143 \\approx 0.71 \\text{ mL}
            ]<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. Explanation:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
              \n
            • First, you need to reconstitute the ceftriaxone vial by adding sterile water. According to the vial’s label, adding 2.1 mL of sterile water will result in a solution with a concentration of 350 mg\/mL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • To administer 250 mg of ceftriaxone, you calculate the volume of the reconstituted solution required by dividing the desired dose (250 mg) by the concentration of the solution (350 mg\/mL).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • The result is approximately 0.7143 mL. When rounded to the nearest hundredth, this is 0.71 mL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              So, the nurse should administer 0.71 mL<\/strong> of the reconstituted ceftriaxone solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              A nurse is preparing to administer ceftriaxone 250 mg IM to an adult client who has a gonococcal infection. The label on the vial indicates to reconstitute each vial with sterile water 2.1 mL to yield ceftriaxone 350 mg\/mL. How many mL of the reconstituted medication should the nurse administer? (Round the answer to the […]<\/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-140058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140058","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=140058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}