Pharmacology 7th Edition by Henry Hitner,Barbara Nagle

Exercise 18

Bert just finished his training as a pharmacist assistant and started working in a nursing home dispensary last week. One of his job duties is to calculate the number of milliliters of drug-for-drug orders given in milligrams. Show how you would deal with the following patient orders if you had Bert's job.a. There's a drug order for 100 mg of Demerol to be administered IM. The label on the stock bottle of Demerol says it's in a 5 percent solution , or 50 mg per ml.
b. There's an order for a diabetic patient of 30 units of insulin. The stock bottle is labeled U-100 , or 100 units per ml.