Question

The health care provider prescribes 0.075 g of a medication orally daily. The label on the medication bottle reads 25-mg tablets. How many tablet(s) will the nurse administer to the client?

a) 2 tablets
b) 3 tablets
c) 4 tablets
d) 5 tablets

Answer 1

To administer the correct dosage of 0.075 g using 25-mg tablets, the conversion reveals that the nurse will administer 3 tablets to the client.

Step-by-step explanation:

The health care provider prescribes 0.075 g of a medication orally daily. Given that each tablet contains 25 mg, we need to convert the prescribed grams to milligrams to determine how many tablets should be administered. First, we know that 1 gram (g) is equal to 1000 milligrams (mg).

Therefore, to convert 0.075 g to mg, we multiply by 1000:

0.075 g × 1000 = 75 mg

Since each tablet has 25 mg of the medication, we then divide the total milligrams required by the milligram content per tablet:

75 mg ÷ 25 mg/tablet = 3 tablets

The nurse will need to administer 3 tablets to the client.