Question 1
Nursing Pharmacology Questions and Answers. The client is receiving Levaquin $500\text{ mg}$ in $250\text{ mL}$ of normal saline. What is the $\text{mg}$ concentration of the medication per each $\text{mL}$?
- 1 mg/mL
- 2 mg/mL
- 0.5 mg/mL
- 4 mg/mL
Question 2
$250\text{ mL}$ of D5W to infuse over 3 hours. The tubing drop factor is $10\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 10 gtts/min
- 14 gtts/min
- 12 gtts/min
- 16 gtts/min
Question 3
Keflex $1.5\text{ grams}$ in $50\text{ mL}$ of D5 to infuse over 30 minutes. The tubing drop factor is $15\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate? Nursing Pharmacology Questions and Answers
- 15 gtts/min
- 20 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
Question 4
$100\text{ mL}$ of NS to infuse in 30 minutes. The tubing drop factor is $10\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 30 gtts/min
- 33 gtts/min
- 35 gtts/min
- 40 gtts/min
Question 5
$1,000\text{ mL}$ of D5NS with $20,000\text{ units}$ of Heparin is infusing at $20\text{ mL/hr}$. The tubing drop factor is $60\text{ gtt/mL}$. There are no infusion pumps available. What drip rate per minute will the nurse use?
- 15 gtts/min
- 20 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
Question 6
Penicillin comes in $1,000,000\text{ units}/5\text{ mL}$. How many units are in each $\text{mL}$?
- 100,000 units/mL
- 200,000 units/mL
- 500,000 units/mL
- 50,000 units/mL
Question 7
Heparin $25,000\text{ units}$ in $500\text{ mL}$. How many $\text{units/mL}$ is the patient receiving?
- 25 units/mL
- 50 units/mL
- 100 units/mL
- 5 units/mL
Question 8
Order: $1\text{ gram}$ vancomycin IV in $150\text{ mL}$ D5W in $1.5\text{ hours}$. The tubing drop factor is $20\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 30 gtts/min
- 33 gtts/min
- 35 gtts/min
- 40 gtts/min
Question 9
$500\text{ mL}$ to infuse in 6 hours. The tubing drop factor is $20\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 25 gtts/min
- 28 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
- 20 gtts/min
Question 10
$750\text{ mL}$ NS is to be infused in 5 hours. The tubing drop factor is $10\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 20 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
- 15 gtts/min
Question 11
$250\text{ mL}$ NS is to be infused in 60 minutes. The tubing drop factor is $10\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 40 gtts/min
- 42 gtts/min
- 38 gtts/min
- 45 gtts/min
Question 12
1 liter of NS is to be infused at $100\text{ mL/hr}$. The tubing drop factor is $15\text{ gtt/mL}$. There are no infusion pumps available. What drip rate per minute will the nurse use?
- 20 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
- 15 gtts/min
Question 13
$850\text{ mL}$ is to be infused over 6 hours. The tubing drop factor is $15\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 30 gtts/min
- 35 gtts/min
- 40 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
Question 14
Order: $1,000\text{ mL}$ D5W to infuse over 10 hours. The tubing drop factor is $20\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 30 gtts/min
- 33 gtts/min
- 35 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
Question 15
The patient is to receive $350\text{ mg}$ of an antibiotic in $150\text{ mL}$ of D5W over 1 hour. The tubing drop factor is $15\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 35 gtts/min
- 38 gtts/min
- 40 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
Question 16
Order: $40\text{ mEq}$ of KCL in $100\text{ mL}$ of normal saline over 40 minutes. The tubing drop factor is $20\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 40 gtts/min
- 45 gtts/min
- 50 gtts/min
- 55 gtts/min
Question 17
$3,000\text{ mL}$ is to be infused over 24 hours. The tubing drop factor is $15\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 25 gtts/min
- 30 gtts/min
- 31 gtts/min
- 35 gtts/min
Question 18
$500\text{ mL}$ NS is to be infused in 4 hours. The tubing drop factor is $10\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 18 gtts/min
- 20 gtts/min
- 21 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
Question 19
$500\text{ mL}$ is to be infused over 12 hours. The tubing drop factor is $15\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate?
- 8 gtts/min
- 10 gtts/min
- 12 gtts/min
- 15 gtts/min
Question 20
$1,500\text{ mL}$ of D5W to infuse over 12 hours. The tubing drop factor is $10\text{ gtt/mL}$. What is the drop rate? Nursing Pharmacology Questions and Answers
- 18 gtts/min
- 20 gtts/min
- 21 gtts/min
- 25 gtts/min
