Question

An RN is going to give 1 Liter of 0.9% NaCl over 16 hours. You will be using tubing that administers 60 gtts/ml. The nurse would set the drip rate at _____ gtts/min. (Round to the nearest whole number)

Answer 1

Ordered dose is 1liter or 1000ml of 0.9 NaCl.

Total time provided is 16 hours.

Drop factor is 60 gtts/ml.

For calculation of drip rate, formula used is total volume in ml / total time in minutes * drop factor.

so, applying above values into the formula.

we get, 1000 ml/ 960 * 60

after calculating, we get 62.5 gtts/ min.

so, rounding off to the nearest whole number we get 60 gtts/min.

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