Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). All of these entries on a medication record are meant as the same dose. Which one follows the safe-writing rules for zeros and abbreviations? Click it.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient weighs 58 lb. Using 1 kg = 2.2 lb, find the weight m in kilograms. Round to one decimal place.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient’s temperature is 100.3 °F. Convert it to degrees Celsius T with °C = (°F − 32) × 5/9. Round to one decimal place.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A dose calculation for an injection gives 4.9547 mL. The rule in this exercise is that volumes of 1 mL or more are rounded to the nearest tenth of a mL. What value x do you record?
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A prescription reads 2 tsp of an oral suspension every 12 hours for 14 days. Using 1 tsp = 5 mL, how many mL V are needed for the whole course?
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). During a shift a patient takes 3 tsp of cough syrup, ¾ cup of tea, 1 fl oz of juice. Using the equivalents given, find the total oral intake V in mL.
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