Question

Nurse preparing to administer 1g via IV bolus every 12 hour. Available in 1g in 50mL NaCl to infuse over 15 min. RN should set IV pump to deliver how many ml/hr? Round to whole number.

Answer 1

The IV pump rate, convert the infusion time from minutes to hours, and divide the total volume by the time in hours. The IV pump should be set to 200 mL/hr to administer a 1g dose over 15 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking how to calculate the rate at which an IV pump should be set to deliver a 1g dose of medication, available in a 50mL solution, over a 15-minute period. To solve this, we need to find how many milliliters per hour (mL/hr) the pump should be set to.

First, determine how many milliliters should be infused per hour. Since the medication is to be infused over 15 minutes, we convert that time to hours (15 minutes = 0.25 hours) so that we can express the rate in mL/hr.


We then divide the total volume of the medication by the time in hours:

50 mL ÷ 0.25 hours = 200 mL/hr.

Therefore, the nurse should set the IV pump to deliver 200 mL/hr. When rounding to the nearest whole number, the pump setting remains 200 mL/hr as it is already a whole number.