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.
-Mrs Cootes has a secondary line delivering Heparin. The 250 ml bag of 0.9% sodium chloride contains 10 000 units of Heparin and is to last for 12 hours. How fast will this solution need to drip to deliver the medication in the prescribed time, if a microdropper is in use?

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