The health care provider prescribes 10 milliliters of medication ...

[pane00]

The health care provider prescribes 10 milliliters of medication to be administered to the child every 8 hours. The mother calls the clinic later in the day and asks how to measure 5 milliliters.
 
  The nurse would instruct the mother to administer how many teaspoons of the medication?
 
  ____ teaspoons
 
  Record the answer rounding to the nearest whole number.

Question 2

The nurse working in a pediatric clinic assesses a child who weighs 14 pounds, 8 ounces. The health care provider prescribes medications based on kilograms. How many kilograms does this child weigh?
 
  ____ kg
 
  Record the answer rounding to the nearest tenth.

[owenfalvey]

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 2

1 teaspoon = 5 milliliters; 10 milliliters divided by 5 = 2 teaspoons. This problem can be set up with what you have on one side and what you need on the other side of the equation. What you have is 1 tsp:5 milliliters, what you want to know is x teaspoons:10 mL. The equation would be 1:5 = x:10. Multiply the two numbers on either end of the equation (1 X 10) and then make that equal to the multiplication of the 2 inside figures (5 X x), resulting in the equation 10 = 5x. Divide both sides by 5 to leave only the x on one side of the equation (10  5 = 5x  5), resulting in 2 = x.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 6.6

There are 2.2 kilograms per pound. If 2.2 kg = 1 pound, the child's weight in pounds will be divided by 2.2. A general rule of thumb when converting pounds to kilograms is the result will be slightly less than half of the pound weight. 8 ounces = 0.5 pounds. 14.5 divided by 2.2 = 6.59 or 6.6 kilograms.

[pane00]

Thank you

[owenfalvey]

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