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Practice Math Problems for Advanced Placement Students Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions 11. The physician has ordered 1 g. of Ancef. You have 250 mg tablets on hand. 12. The order is 0.5 g of Chloromyedin. On hand are 250 mg capsules. How 13. The doctor instructed a patient to take 2 Tbsp. of cough syrup every 12 hours. The patient only has teaspoons available to measure with. How many teaspoons should the patient take with each dose? 14. The order is for Amoxicillin 80 mg IM. The vial of the medication is labeled Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions 15. You are ordered to give a patient 250 mg Keflin. The bottle says to add 9.5 mL of sterile water to the vial to yield 0.5 g/mL. How many mL’s will you 16. The order is for 100,000 units penicillin. The penicillin on hand is labeled 250,000 units/mL. How much of the drug will you administer? 17. The order is for Aspirin 162 mg for a temperature greater than 102 degrees F. The medication is available in 81 mg tablets. How many tablets should 18. The order is for aspirin 650 mg every 6 hours for pain. It is available as 325 mg tablets. How many tablets would be given per dose? How many tablets 19. You are preparing an injection of morphine. The order reads 15 mg IM. The stock morphine is 48 mg/2 mL. How many mL’s of morphine will you Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions 20. An injection of 4 mg of Valium has been prescribed for a patient suffering from muscle spasms. An ampule of Valium labeled 5 mg/mL is on hand. 21. If a patient is to take 1 ½ oz. of milk of magnesia, how many Tbsp should 22. A physician prescribes potassium chloride 10 mEq diluted in 1 glass of juice daily. Potassium chloride 20 mEq per 15 mL is available in a 500 mL bottle. How many mL per dose of potassium chloride should be dissolved in the 23. The physician ordered Synthroid (sodium levothyroxine) 25 mcg every morning. Available are 0.05 mg tablets. How many tablets will you give? Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions 24. Ampicillin 2 mL added to 50 mL normal saline over 10 minutes is prescribed for a patient suffering from an upper respiratory infection. Calculate the rate of flow if the administration set reads 10 gtt/mL. 25. The physician orders 350 mg of aminophylline in 150 mL of D5W to be administered over 1 hour. Drop factor 15 gtts/mL. Calculate the gtts/min. 26. Set your IV to administer 100 mL of medication in 40 min. with an administration set that delivers 15 gtt/mL. 27. An IV of 1200 mL is ordered to run for 16 hours. Drop factor 15 gtt/mL. 28. What will the drip rate be to infuse 200 mL of D5W over 2 hours with microdrop Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions 29. Infuse 3000 mL of IV fluid over the next 24 hours with IV tubing that delivers 15 gtt/mL. Calculate the appropriate drip rate. Determine the safe dose range for each child in questions 31 – 32 31. The child is to receive Cipro which has a dose range of 20 – 30 mg/kg/24 32. The child receives Erythromycin, which has a dose range of 30 – 50 mg/kg/24 hours. The child weighs 16.3 kg. Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions Questions 33 – 35 refer to the following situation. Your patient weighs 47.8 pounds. The order is for Ampicillin 400 mg IV every 6 hours. The dose range for Ampicillin is 50 – 100 mg/kg/24 hours. You have on 33. How many kilograms does your patient weigh? 34. What is the safe dose range of Ampicillin for this patient? Round off to the 35. How much Ampicillin will you draw up to administer? Advanced Placement Practice Math Questions

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