Dextrose is the reduction of sugars in a substance that is sugary. Another name for dextrose is glucose. This dextrose is considered to be a simple sugar. The most common dextrose is the monosaccharide. Often times a nurse will use an IV to have it drop the medicine at certain times so that the patient is getting their medicine in intervals.
The nurse will set the amount of times each drop should take place. It is measured in drops per minute. In this case, a physician orders dextrose five percent in water, one thousand milliliters to be infused over eight hours. The IV tubing delivers fifteen drops per milliliters. The nurse should run the IV infusion at a rate of thirty-two drops per minute.
32 drops/minute.-rationale: giving 1,000 ml over 8 hours is the same as giving 125 ml over 1 hour (60 minutes). find the number of milliliters per minute as follows:125/60 minutes = x/1 minute60x = 125 = 2.1 ml/minute.to find the number of drops per minute:2.1 ml/x gtt = 1 ml/15 gttx = 32 gtt/minute, or 32 drops/minute.client needs category: physiological integrityclient needs subcategory: pharmacological and parenteral therapiescognitive level: analysisreference: karch, a.m. focus on nursing pharmacology, 4th ed. philadelphia: lippincott williams wilkins, 2008, p. 56.
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