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Jackie Returns to the Ward

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Jackie returns to the ward. She is to have a morphine infusion to deliver pain relief via a syringe driver. You note that the order is for 45 mg of morphine in 60 ml of fluid. You assist the registered nurses to set up this infusion.
-Jackie's intravenous infusion, 1 L of 5% dextrose (she is not currently taking food or fluids) , has 70 ml remaining and is dripping at 60 drops/minute. Remembering that the drop factor for the giving set is 20 drops/ml, this infusion should complete in


A) 20 minutes
B) 23 minutes
C) 25 minutes
D) 27 minutes

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