Arithmetic Needed For Dosage Verified Test Bank Chapter 1 - Test Bank | Henkes Med Math 9e Buchholz by Susan Buchholz. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 1, Arithmetic Needed for Dosage
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care and Comfort
Cognitive Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 2, Dividing Whole Numbers; 3, Fractions
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 2
1. A patient/client was instructed to drink 25 oz of water within 2 hours but was only able to drink 15 oz. What portion of the water remained?
A) 2/5
B) 3/5
C) 2/25
D) 25/25
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 2, Dividing Whole Numbers; 3, Fractions
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 2
2. A patient/client was prescribed 240 mL of Ensure by mouth as a supplement but consumed only 100 mL. What portion of the Ensure remained?
A) 5/12
B) 7/12
C) 100/240
D) 240/240
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 2, Multiplying Whole Numbers; 3, Fractions
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 1, 2
3. A patient/client consumed 2
oz. of coffee, 2/3 oz. of ice cream, and 1
oz. of beef broth. What is the total number of ounces consumed that should be documented for the patient/client?
A) 3 3/4
B) 4 5/12
C) 4 2/3
D) 4 4/9
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 2, Multiplying Whole Numbers; 3, Fractions
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 1, 2
4. A coffee cup holds 180 mL. The patient/client drank 2⅓ cups of coffee. How many milliliters would the nurse document as consumed?
A) 360
B) 420
C) 510
D) 600
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 3, 5
5. A patient/client weighed 48.52 kg on admission and now weighs 50.4 kg. How many kilograms were gained since admission?
A) 0.78
B) 0.88
C) 1.88
D) 1.98
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 3, 5, 6
6. A patient/client's sodium intake for one meal was 0.004 g and 0.152 g. How many grams, to the nearest hundredths, of sodium were consumed?
A) 0.15
B) 0.156
C) 0.16
D) 0.166
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 15, Percents; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion.
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 5, 7, 8
7. A patient/client reports drinking 30% of a 16-oz bottle of orange juice. How many ounces did the patient/client drink?
A) 0.18
B) 3.2
C) 4.8
D) 5.3
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 15, Percents; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion.
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 5, 7, 8
8. A patient/client reports drinking 45% of a 12-oz can of soda. How many ounces are documented?
A) 4.4
B) 5.7
C) 5.4
D) 4.7
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 3, Fractions
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
9. A patient/client is on a 1200 mL fluid restriction for 24 hours. At breakfast and lunch, the patient/client consumed 3/5 of the fluid allowance. How many milliliters were consumed?
A) 280
B) 360
C) 540
D) 720
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 3, Fractions
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 1
10. A patient/client is on a 1500 mL fluid restriction for 24 hours. At 3 pm, the client consumed 2/3 of the fluid allowance for 24 hours. What are the maximum milliliters of fluid remaining that the patient/client can consume during the evening shift?
A) 400
B) 450
C) 500
D) 550
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 10, Decimals
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 5
11. A patient/client drank 0.375 mL of a medication that was available as 0.75 mL. List the amount of medication consumed as a fraction of the whole.
A) 1/5
B) 1/4
C) 1/3
D) 1/2
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 3
12. A laboratory report listed the following four results: bilirubin (0.2), creatinine (1.46), creatinine (0.09), and albumin (0.75). Identify the smallest amount.
A) 0.2
B) 1.46
C) 0.09
D) 0.75
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 3
13. The laboratory report included these four numbers: 0.355, 0.3, 0.03, and 0.035. Which decimal is the largest?
A) 0.3
B) 0.03
C) 0.035
D) 0.355
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 15, Percents
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 4, 5, 6, 7
14. A patient/client's oral ibuprofen suspension dose contains 325 mg per teaspoon. A dose of 100 mg represents what percentage of this dosage?
A) 29.7
B) 30.8
C) 31.7
D) 32.8
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 15, Percents
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 3, 4, 6, 7
15. A patient/client's medication contains 650 mg per ounce. What percentage of this dosage does 375 mg represent?
A) 56.7
B) 57.7
C) 59.8
D) 60.6
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 5, 8
16. The physician prescribed 7.5 mg of a medication that is available in 5-mg tablets. How many tablets would the nurse administer?
A) 
B) 1
C) 1
D) 2
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 3, 8
17. The physician prescribed 5000 units of a medication that is available in 10,000 units per milliliter. How many milliliters would the nurse administer?
A) 0.5 mL
B) 1 mL
C) 1.5 mL
D) 2 mL
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 8
18. The physician prescribed 20 mg of a medication that is available 10 mg per 15 milliliters. How many milliliters would the nurse administer?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 30
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 8
19. The physician prescribed 50 mg of a medication that is available as 80 mg per milliliter. How many milliliters would the nurse administer?
A) 0.16
B) 0.6
C) 1.6
D) 16
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 10, Decimals; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 1, 2, 8
20. The physician prescribed 0.25 g of a medication that is available in 0.5-g tablets. How many tablets would the nurse give?
A) 
B) 1
C) 1
D) 2
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 10, Decimals; 15, Percents
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 4, 5, 6, 7
21. A nurse measured the circumference of an edematous leg and documented “15.5 inches at mid-calf, left leg” on the client's electronic medical record. For comparison, she measured the right calf and documented “12 inches at mid-calf, right leg.” The left calf is what percent larger than the right calf?
A) 20
B) 22
C) 23
D) 25
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 10, Decimals; 15, Percents
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 2, 4, 7
22. The physician prescribed taking blood pressure assessments on a patient, lying and standing, every 4 hours, for 24 hours. Determine the percentage difference between the first two systolic readings (140 mm Hg lying and 125 mm Hg standing).
A) 7
B) 9
C) 11
D) 13
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 3, Fractions; 10, Decimals; 15, Percents
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 4, 5, 7
23. A physician prescribed an IV solution, 500 mL of 0.9% NS with 25 g of an antibiotic, to run over 8 hours. What percent of the IV fluids would be given each hour?
A) 10
B) 12.5
C) 15
D) 18.5
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 2, 8, 9
24. A physician prescribed 35 mg of a medication, IM, q4h, prn. The drug is available as 50 mg/mL. How many milliliters would the nurse give for each dose? If the patient/client received six doses over 24 hours, how many total milliliters would the nurse give?
A) 0.5; 3
B) 0.6; 3.6
C) 0.7; 4.2
D) 0.8; 4.8
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 5, 8
25. The physician ordered 20 mg of a drug by IV push, to be given over 5 minutes, q12h. The medication is available as 25 mg/5 mL. How many milliliters would the nurse give for each dose? How many milliliters of medication would be given over each minute?
A) 4; 0.8
B) 4; 1
C) 5; 0.8
D) 5; 1
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 10, Decimals; 15, Percents
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 5, 7
26. An elderly patient/client takes her morning medications with 4 ounces of Boost®. The doctor wants her to increase her Boost® intake by 50%. How many additional ounces would the patient/client take with her morning dose of medications? Use the decimal format to estimate the percent increase.
A) 1
B) 1 ½
C) 2
D) 2 ½
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 2, Dividing Whole Numbers; 7, Dividing Fractions
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1, 2, 8
27. The physician prescribed 60 mg of Klonopin (clonazepam) available as a 40 mg scored tablet. The patient/client was advised to take how many tablets for each dose? Use Proportion (Ratios and Fractions) to solve this problem.
- ½
- 1
C) 1 ½
D) 2
Difficulty: Moderate
Page and Header: 12, Multiplying Decimals
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 5
28. A patient/client takes 0.125 mg of a medication, three times daily. How many milligrams would the patient/client take in four days?
A) 0.375
B) 0.75
C) 1.125
D) 1.5
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 3, Multiplying Fractions
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 2
29. A patient/client in a nursing home is weighed weekly. Her initial weight on admission was 174 ½ pounds. After three weeks, she weighed 156 ¼ pounds. How many pounds did the patient/client lose in three weeks? Subtract the mixed numbers after determining the least common denominator (LCD).
- 12 ½
- 14 ¾
- 16 ½
- 18 ¼
Difficulty: Difficult
Page and Header: 15, Percents; 19, Fractions, Ratio, and Proportion
Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
Objective: 7, 8
30. A diabetic patient/client was prescribed an 1800 calorie ADA diet. The patient/client can have 35% of her calories (630) in the form of carbohydrate (CHO). To maintain this same ratio, how many carbohydrate calories would she be allowed if the ADA diet was reduced to 1500 calories? Use a proportion (ratios) to solve the problem.
A) 525
B) 475
C) 425
D) 375