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1.Easy
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.
10.250 mcg
2.250 mcg
3.25 mcg
40.25 mcg
2.Easy
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). Convert 0.1 mg to mcg: find x.
0.1 mg1 mg = 1000 mcg
x = mcg
3.Medium
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A dose calculation for a small injection gives 0.33099 mL. The rule in this exercise is that volumes below 1 mL are rounded to the nearest hundredth of a mL. What value x do you record?
0.33099 mL
x = mL
4.Medium
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient’s temperature is 102.2 °F. Convert it to degrees Celsius T with °C = (°F − 32) × 5/9. Round to one decimal place.
102.2 °F
T = °C
5.Hard
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A prescription reads 2 tsp of an oral suspension every 12 hours for 10 days. The suspension comes in 150 mL bottles. Using 1 tsp = 5 mL, how many whole bottles N must be supplied so the course is complete?
2 tspevery 12 hours10 days150 mL1 tsp = 5 mL
N =
6.Hard
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). An infusion starts at 17:15 and finishes at 07:35 the next morning (24-hour clock). How many minutes t did it run?
17:1507:35
t = min
Answer key
1. 0.25 mcg
2. x = 100 mcg
3. x = 0.33 mL
4. T = 39 °C
5. N = 2
6. t = 860 min
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