Practice Problems

1. Your patient with high blood pressure has an order for enalapril 7500 mcg
PO. The pharmacy sends you a bottle with the following label. How many
tablets will you administer to your patient?

2. You receive an order for warfarin 7.5 mg. The pharmacy sends you 2.5 mg
scored tablets. How many tablets will you prepare for your patient?

3. The order for your patient with gout reads to give 1200 mcg PO. The
pharmacy sends you the following label. How many capsules will you
administer to your patient?

4. A patient has been admitted for dizziness and meclizine 37.5 mg has been
ordered. The pharmacy sends you 25 mg tablets. How many will you give the
patient?
5. Digoxin 375 mcg has been ordered for your patient with a heart condition.
The pharmacy sends you a vial with the following label How many tablets
will you need to give your patient?

6. The patient with seizures is being sent home on Neurontin 450 mg by mouth.
How many tablets will you instruct your patient to take when given a bottle
of 300 mg tablets?

7. Sublingual nitroglycerin 1/200 gr is ordered for your patient. How many mg

will you be giving this patient?

8. 1/8 gr of a medication is ordered for your patient. The pharmacy sends you
the medication with a label that states 25 mg/5 mL. How many mL will this
patient need?

9. Your pediatric patient weighs 78 lbs. The physician orders Tylenol 15 mg/kg
every 4 hours for fever. Patient has a temperature of 101. The pharmacy
sends you liquid Tylenol, 160 mg/5 mL. How many mLs will you prepare to
administer to the patient?
10. O.125 mg of digoxin is ordered for your patient. The pharmacy sends you the
following medication. How many mLs will pull up to give the patient?

11. Your patient who has nausea and vomiting has Ondansetron (Zofran)
ordered, 7 mg every 4-6 hours as needed for nausea/vomiting. You will
administer how many mLs if the concentration is 40 mg/20 mL?

12. Your patient with endocarditis weighs 276 lbs. The physician orders
Vancomycin, 20 mg/kg IV every 12 hours. The recommended dose is
20/mg/kg/dose with a maximum dose of 2 g. Is this order safe for the
patient?

13. The patient with a urinary tract infection is on Zosyn 3.375 g every 6 hours.
The pharmacy sends you a vial with the concentration of 50 mL/3 g. How
many mLs will you administer to your patient?
14. 75 mg of Solu-Medrol is ordered for your asthmatic patient. The pharmacy
sends you the following vial. How many mLs will you prepare to administer
to the patient?

15. You need to give your pediatric patient 15 mg of Benadryl. The single dose
package is 12.5 mg/5 mL. How many mLs will you give the patient?

16. The recommended dose of clindamycin for pediatric patients is 20-40

mg/kg/day in 3-4 divided doses. For a patient weighing 43 lb 6 oz, what is
the daily range of this drug? What is the dose range?

17. The pediatric patient with seizures has 0.25 g of Dilantin ordered. The
pharmacy sends you the following scored tablets. How many chewable
tablets you will give this patient?
18. Patient who weighs 91 lbs. has ranitidine 0.5 mg/kg ordered to be given
intramuscularly. The concentration sent from the pharmacy is 25 mg/mL.
How many mLs will you prepare?

19. There is an order for Albuterol syrup for your 3 year old patient who weighs
31 lbs. The recommended dose is 0.1 mg/kg. The label states the
concentration is 2 mg/5 mL. How many mLs will you give the patient?

20. Your sickle cell patient weighs 56 lbs. The order reads to give 0.08 mg/kg of
Dilaudid (hydromorphone) every 4-6 hours as needed for pain. The
pharmacy sends you a vial with the following label. How many tablets will
you give this patient?

21. A patient is to receive 1500 mLs of normal saline over 12 hours. The drop
factor is 15 gtts/mL. What is the drop rate for this infusion?

22. The patient is to receive an antibiotic infusion of 150 mL in 45 minutes. This

must be run on an infusion pump. How many mLs per hour will you set the
pump?

23. What is the infusion time for 250 mL to infuse at 35 mL/hr?

24. The antibiotic is to infuse in 30 minutes. If you start this at 0720 am, when
will it finish, in military time?

25. How many drops per minute will you count to run 125 mL over 30 minutes if
the drop factor is 20 gtts/mL?
26. The patient has an IV medication in 250 mL to run over 2 hours. Using the
following tubing, how many drops per minute will you run the IV?

27. An IV fluid bolus of 1 L over 30 minutes is ordered for your patient. How
many mLs per hour will you set the infusion pump to deliver the ordered
bolus?

28. After the bolus is run, the order calls for a maintenance infusion of 2.5 L over
the next 24 hours. How many mLs per hour will you need to set the pump to
deliver this order?

29. The patient has Vancomycin ordered: 1 g in 150 mL to run over 2 hours. The
drop factor is 10 gtts/mL. How many drops per minute is needed to for this
infusion?

30. Rocephin 1 g in 250 mL is ordered for your patient to run over 45 minutes.
How many mLs per hour will you set the pump?
31. An antibiotic infusion was started at 0750 and is to be completed in 1 hr 30
minutes. What time will this infusion be completed in military time?

32. The patient’s order is for 125 mL of a medication to run at 50 mL per hour.
What is the infusion time?