A Patient's IV Is Supposed to Have a Drip Rate

question 20

Multiple Choice

A patient's IV is supposed to have a drip rate of 42 gtt/min.You count 8 gtt in 15 seconds.What is your best action?

• A) Nothing,the IV flow rate is correct.
• B) Increase the drip rate to 10 gtt/15 seconds.
• C) Increase the drip rate to 15 gtt/15 seconds.
• D) Decrease the drip rate to 6 gtt/15 seconds.

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Definitions:

Probabilities

Measures of the likelihood that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

Probability Values

Numerical values that represent the likelihood of the occurrence of a specific event or outcome.

Mutually Exclusive

Two or more events that cannot happen at the same time; the occurrence of one event precludes the occurrence of the other(s).

Nonzero Probabilities

Probabilities that are greater than zero, indicating that an event has a chance of occurring.