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00:01 Okay this question says if the physician orders eight milligrams of a medication so the order in this case is going to be eight milligrams of the medication and the bio list says that there are so in this case you have available here available a two milligrams in one ml how many ml would the medical assistant give to deliver the eight milligrams? so when approaching a questions like this you just have to use rule of threes okay for example in this case this one means this is what you have available you have two milligrams in one ml of solution so in this case you have that in one ml of solution there are two milligrams of this medication okay now if you if the order in the order is um the order is eight milligrams then what amount of solution is going to contain these eight milligrams? so you have to just solve this rule of three eight multiplied by one is the same as two multiplied by x so you have eight multiplied by one is equal to two multiplied by or two x okay and this is going to be equal to x is equal to four so you have that four ml's are going to contain these eight milligrams of medication that you want to give to this patient.

01:23 The next question says the physician orders 60 milligrams of a medication so you have that the order in this case is going to be 60 milligrams and available you have available you have a one gram that is 1000 milligrams per capsule okay and it says how many capsules will the patient need to take the fulfill or to take to fulfill the request? so in this case another rule of three you have to have to have here 1000 milligrams is containing one capsule so if the order is 60 milligrams only then you have x here and this is going to be equal to well in general you would need in this case x would be 0 .06 okay it means that you would need 0 .06 capsules what is kind of weird right but anyway with the information that they are providing us this is the answer and it says how many capsules will the patient need to take the fulfill to fulfill the request well practically one okay if you can give less than one then less than one because it is 0 .06 capsules okay you don't even get to one capsule.

02:43 Then it says if the patient is required to take 60 milligrams four times a day a month okay so you have 60 milligrams a four times a day okay four times a day so you have multiplied by four and this is going to be equal to 240 milligrams per day in total per day okay and this is a for a month so it means that you have to multiply this by 30 because 30 days because a month has 30 days okay so you have to multiply this you have 440 multiplied by 30 this is equal to 7200 milligrams so this is the amount of a of milligrams that you need in one month...

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3. List three ways medication assistance is different from medication administration.

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3. List three ways medication assistance is different from medication administration.

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