Formula

So a few classmates were asking me what I answered for this question in our case study.

" The next day, the nurse initiates the feeding prescribed by the health care provider. The prescription is for half strength formula to infuse at 40 ml/hour. The formula is available in 8 ounce cans. The nurse is preparing enough formula for 12 hours.

How many cans of formula will the nurse need? (Enter numerical value only. If rounding is necessary, round to the whole number. "

At first I thought the question was hard as hell.

Then I learned the equivalents of the household and metric systems, 

and it became quite so simple.

So the order was for half strength, which would make it 20 ml/hour.

And the formula is available in 8 ounces, which would be 240 in milliliters.

So in a period of 12 hours, the total formula the patient should be given is 240 ml

12(hours) x 20(ml/hour) = 240 mL which is equivalent to 8 ounces.

It's so simple yet my mind likes to complicate it.

Nursing is just so full of contradictions.

I really don't know how to survive this. Being a detached person, it will be hard to stick my nose in other people's business.

Nursing also requires being nosy. I never would have guessed.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.