You Are Working in a Surgical Bay Caring for Five

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You are working in a surgical bay caring for five clients under the guidance of a registered nurse. Today, she has asked you to take particular notice of the intravenous fluid management of the clients in your care.
-Mandy is keen to walk to the kiosk but wants to wait until her infusion is removed. If 60 ml remain in the infusion bag and it is dripping at the rate of 30 drops/minute, when will the infusion complete?

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Definitions:

Meteorites

Solid pieces of debris from objects such as asteroids or comets that have made their way through the Earth's atmosphere and landed on the surface.

Continental Drift

The hypothesis, now a scientific theory, that the Earth's continents have moved over geological time relative to each other, appearing to have "drifted" across the ocean bed.

Glacial Evidence

Glacial evidence comprises physical features left on the landscape that indicate the past presence and movement of glaciers, such as striations, moraines, and glacial erratics.

Wegener's Hypothesis

The theory proposed by Alfred Wegener suggesting that continents drift across the Earth's surface through geological time, which later became known as continental drift.