CARE Nursing Exam Prep

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Liquid oral doses

How many millilitres of a liquid medication supply the ordered dose.

Problem

An order reads 625 mg. The medication is supplied as 250 mg per 5 mL. How many millilitres supply the ordered dose?

Round to the nearest tenth of a millilitre.

These are practice problems for exam preparation. Every number in them is generated by CARE for teaching purposes — nothing here is a real order and nothing here is a clinical dosing tool. Do not use this page to work out a dose for a real patient: use your facility's policy, the actual order, and an independent double-check where your policy requires one.

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