A 78-year-old female patient is hospitalized with pneumonia. On admission, she weighs 198 lbs and reports her height to be 66 inches. She has a serum creatinine of 1.3 mg/dL.  What is the patient's creatinine clearance? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

You are working a shift from 1200 to 2000 and Mrs. Purcell is under your care. Her IV prescription for ½N/S is scheduled to begin at 1300. The prescriber has ordered 800 mL of ½N/S to run at 85 mL/hr. You begin infusion at 1300 using a 500 mL IV bag and an IV set calibrated to 10 gtt/mL.       Show all calculations.   a) What is the prescribed drip rate?           b) At what time do you expect the IV bag to run empty?                  At 1500, the IV bag is half empty.   c) Is the IV on time, ahead or behind, and by how much?                d) What is the new flow rate?                e) What is the new drip rate?

Your patient shows poor performace on the Wisconsin Card sorting test and shows strong perseveration. What type of disease or brain lesion might this person have?

Where can the drop factor for an IV set usually be found?     it must be calculated     on the IV tubing packaging     on the IV fluid bag     in the IV infusion order