Practice Dosage Calculations
1. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Nitroglycerin 20mg IV stat. ______________
2. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Digoxin 250mcg PO every day. ______________
3. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Docusate Sodium 250mg PO twice a day. _____________
4. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Ketorolac 25mg IM every 6 hours PRN pain. _______________
5. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below. Patient
weight is 225 pounds.
Order: Gentamycin 3mg/kg IVPB every 8 hours. __________________
6. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Amoxicillin 0.5 grams PO twice a day. ____________
7. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Ampicillin 375mg IM every 8 hours. _________
8. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Heparin 25,000 units subcutaneously every morning. _________
9. A nurse is preparing an IV infusion of heparin for a patient.
Order: Heparin 700units/hr.
Available: Heparin 25,000 units in 250mL of ½ Normal Saline.
How will you set the IV pump? __________
10. A nurse has performed a blood glucose check before breakfast with the result
of 224. How much insulin needs to be administered based on the sliding scale
below? _________
INSULIN SLIDING SCALE DOSE
60 – 110 No insulin
111 – 150 2 units of Regular insulin
151 – 200 4 units of Regular insulin
201 – 250 6 units of Regular insulin
251 – 300 8 units of Regular insulin
301 – 350 10 units of Regular insulin
>350 12 units of Regular insulin and notify physician
11. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: NPH insulin 60units subcutaneously every am. ____________
12. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below. The
medication was reconstituted with 4.7mL of sterile water.
Order: Penicillin G potassium 600,000 units IM every 12 hours. _____ ___
13. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Nitroglycerin 250mcg IV push stat. ________
14. Read the drug label and calculate one dose of the medication below.
Order: Nitroglycerin 600mcg orally every 12 hours. _______________
15. A patient is ordered 1000mL LR: infuse at 100mL/hour.
Supply: 1000mL LR Calculate how many hours the IV will run. _______hours
16. A nurse needs to calculate the drip rate for the following infusion. The tubing
is 15 gtt/mL.
Order: NS 150mL/hr
Calculate the drops per min. ________________
17.The nurse is preparing an IV infusion for an adult weighing 165lbs.
Order: Drug X 3 mcg/kg/minute.
Supply: Drug X 1800mcg/mL
How much of drug x will be delivered per minute? _____________
18.The nurse needs to run an antibiotic on an IV pump over 30 minutes.
Supply: 150mL D5W
How would the set the pump? _________mL/hr
19.The physician has ordered Dobutamine 250mg in 20mL D5W to infuse at
15mg/kg/hr. The patient weighs 40kg. At what rate do you set the pump?
________________
20.The patient has a Heparin drip which must be started on an IV pump. The
500mL bag of D5W has 25,000 units of Heparin added to it. The physician has
ordered 300 units/hour. At what rate do you set the pump? _____mL/hr
21.The MD has ordered Aminophylline at 20mg/hour. The solution is prepared in a
500mL bag of D5W with 250mg of Aminophylline added. What do you set the
pump at to deliver the prescribed dose? _______mL/hr
22. The IV orders are as follows: Give 1000 mL of NS @ 100 ml/hour. Using tubing
with a drop factor of 10 drops/mL at how many drops /minute should you run
the IV? _____________drops/min
23.The patient is to receive 200 mg of a medication IM. It must be reconstituted to
100 mg/mL with the following directions: add 4.7 mL of sterile water to the
0.5gram vial to give 5mL of final volume. What volume do you administer?
___________mL
24.The IV orders are as follows: Administer 1000 mL of LR over 12 hours. The drop
factor on the tubing is 15 drops per mL. How many drops per minute?
_________ drops/min
25. The nurse is preparing an IV infusion for an adult weighing 180lbs.
Order: Drug X 2mg/kg/hour.
Supply: Drug X 250mg/250mL
How much drug x will be delivered per hour? _______mL/hr
