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Test-Taking Strategy: Focus on the subject, a dosage calculation. Follow the
formula for the calculation of the correct medication dose. Once you have performed
the calculation, verify your answer using a calculator and make sure that the answer
makes sense. Remember to record your answer using 1 decimal place.
Level of Cognitive Ability: Applying
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity
Integrated Process: Nursing Process—Implementation
Content Area: Skills: Dosage Calculations
Health Problem: Adult Health: Immune: Infections
Priority Concepts: Clinical Judgment; Safety
Reference: Potter et al. (2017), pp. 618-620, 632.

113. Answer: 15

Rationale: In most facilities, potassium chloride is premixed in the intravenous
solution and the nurse will need to verify the correct dose before administration. In
some cases the nurse will need to add the potassium chloride and will use the
medication calculation formula to determine the mL to be added.
Formula:

Test-Taking Strategy: Focus on the subject, a dosage calculation. Follow the
formula for the calculation of the correct medication dose. Once you have performed
the calculation, verify your answer using a calculator and make sure that the answer
makes sense.
Level of Cognitive Ability: Applying
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity
Integrated Process: Nursing Process—Implementation
Content Area: Skills: Dosage Calculations
Health Problem: N/A
Priority Concepts: Clinical Judgment; Safety

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