Round to the Nearest Hundredth If the Dose Is Less

question 46

Short Answer

Round to the nearest hundredth if the dose is less than 1 mL. Round to the nearest tenth if the dose is greater than 1 mL.
-A physician orders Reglan 10 mg IV every 6 hours for a patient with high gastric residuals. Using a vial with a 10 mg/mL concentration, how many milliliters would be administered with each dose? ____________

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation is a statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Proportion

A part, share, or percentage that represents a fraction of a whole.

Samples

Selected portions or subsets of a population used in statistical analysis as representations of the entire population.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set deviate from the mean.