Problem solving

[Guest guest]

hi,

I need help to solve these 2 problems.

1. A pharmacist instructs you to markup a product 12% of which the

wholesale price is 4.8/100 tablets.After few weeks 40 tablets got

sold.Counting the filling fee of 4 and customer senior 10% of final

markdown.How much will the medication cost?

2. The intravenous infusion contains 10 ml of 1:5000 of Isoproterenol

Hydrolchloride and 500 ml of 5% dextrose.What flow rate should it be

administered so as to provide 5mcg of Isoproterenol/min.

Thanks

Hemali

[Guest guest]

hi Janette,

Thanks for trying my problem in all ways.I mailed joemedina of tech lectures

and she said in first problem regarding the tablets dispensed to senior citizen

those are 40 tablets and so the answer is 5.53 and the second problem she said

she put the wrong answer by mistake as the correct answer is 1.28 ml/min as you

calculated.

Thanks

hemali

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS Chemistry wrote :

>Dear Hemali,

>By the way to tell me taht  40 tabs have been previously sold does

>not tell me to this particular patient. I read that and interpreted

>that to mean that 60 were left in the bottle, after the  pharmacy

>sold 40 to who  knows who(?) not that I should sell another quantity

>of 40 tabs.

>But I can see how in retail this is 'understood'. I just feel it is 

>not a well written problem unless you spell out who the first 40

>were sold to if you want the student and tech to sell the same

>amount. Otherwise not enough info is given in the problem.

>This problem could be rewritten as:

>1. A pharmacist instructs you to markup a product 12% of which

>the wholesale price is $4.80/100 tablets. After a few weeks 40

>tablets were sold to a senior citizen, who gets a 10$ discount.

>Including the the filling fee of $4.00, what was the cost of this

>prescription to that patient?

>Thank you all for your future input..

>Respectfully,

>Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BSChem

>Founder/Owner

>

>> > >> hi,

>> > >>   I need help to solve these 2 problems.

>> > >> 1. A pharmacist instructs you to markup a product 12% of

>which

>> the

>> > >> wholesale price is 4.8/100 tablets.After few weeks 40 tablets

>> got

>> > >> sold.Counting the filling fee of 4 and customer senior 10% of

>> final

>> > >> markdown.How much will the medication cost?

>> > >> 2. The intravenous infusion contains 10 ml of 1:5000 of

>> > >Isoproterenol

>> > >> Hydrolchloride and 500 ml of 5% dextrose.What flow rate

>should

>> it

>> > >be

>> > >> administered so as to provide 5mcg of Isoproterenol/min.

>> > >> Thanks

>> > >> Hemali

>> > >

[Guest guest]

Dear Hemali,

Your questions served many purposes:

1. you learned

2. you were able to help Joe Medina repair his online calculations

quiz and change the correct answer.

3. hopefully he will also consider rewriting the retail question

also.

4. got us all, including me, thinking!~

Thank you again for your input!

Keep on studying,

Jeanetta CPhT BS Chem

Founder/Owner

> >> > >> hi,

> >> > >>   I need help to solve these 2 problems.

> >> > >> 1. A pharmacist instructs you to markup a product 12% of

> >which

> >> the

> >> > >> wholesale price is 4.8/100 tablets.After few weeks 40

tablets

> >> got

> >> > >> sold.Counting the filling fee of 4 and customer senior 10%

of

> >> final

> >> > >> markdown.How much will the medication cost?

> >> > >> 2. The intravenous infusion contains 10 ml of 1:5000 of

> >> > >Isoproterenol

> >> > >> Hydrolchloride and 500 ml of 5% dextrose.What flow rate

> >should

> >> it

> >> > >be

> >> > >> administered so as to provide 5mcg of Isoproterenol/min.

> >> > >> Thanks

> >> > >> Hemali

> >> > >

[Guest guest]

Yes I am a prospective healthvisiting student, preparing for my interview and thinking about possible senario qustions. Also please throw me some light on anyother senarios that comes to mind. Many thanx.

[Guest guest]

Good luck with your interview, Onye, and well done for preparing in

advance. Perhaps some current student members of Senate, or recently

enough qualified to remember what it is like, will chip in with

comments/advice. The scenario you have identified is relatively

straightforward, because client confidentiality is paramount. It is

not an easy situation to deal with, though, becaue you never know when

children's residency is going to change. Also, there are different

opinions about whether health visitng responsibility is primarily, even

solely, about the child, with the parents only being 'secondary'

clients, or whether the parents are also clients in their own right.

If the latter, you have responsibility to the estranged father as

well. But you could easily get dragged into battles between estranged

partners, if you don't keep a very careful line in what you say.

You can also be so determined to protect confidentiality, that you

cause confusion or offence, if your communication skills are not good

enough. I am thinking of a personal (grandmother) experience, when I

answered the phone at my son and daughter-in-law's house a week after

they had lost a baby and had a very sick 18 month old, with whom they

were occupied at the time. At 7.15pm, someone ringing who would only

give her first name, would not say who she was or leave a message, but

insisted she would ring back later, convinced me she was telephone

sales person; I was short to say the least. She did phone again the

next day, and was a very concerned health visitor (clearly worried by

the time of night she was ringing). I have felt guilty about being so

abrupt that since, but wish she had found a way to convey to me at

least who she was.

Does anyone else have any comments for Onye?

Onye1@... wrote:

Yes I am a prospective healthvisiting student, preparing for my

interview and thinking about possible senario qustions. Also please

throw me some light on anyother senarios that comes to mind. Many thanx.

[Guest guest]

sarah. as you quite rightly state this can be a potential minefield for Health visitors. During my working practice this scenario occured many times when one parent wanted information on the child, but was not the parent who had the residency order. The child`s developmental progress was recorded in the Parent Held Record and this was the property of the parent caring for the child; If the parent having contact arrangements needed to have the Parent Held Record because of possible medical emergencies and the other parent was agreeable, then both parents were kept informed of developmental checks and any relevant medical information; this was the ideal and was encouraged as a way of keeping both informed. But this means that hvs have to be really careful what they write in Parent Held Record, because comments relating to care, might be interpreted as `poor care` and the parent without residency could use this as potential evidence in a battle over contact

orders. The health visitor has to use all her communication skills not get involved in any battles over the child`s care, and encourage parents to share the care of a child and any relevant information. I would recommend not sharing any information about a child without consent of the parent with residency order, but perhaps trying to agree that developmental reports could go to both parents; (write an agreement down in notes - dated etc!!) and being really careful not write any comments relating to a child`s home situation. I guess it is a case of working `in the best possible interests`, having a `duty of care` to protect the confidentiality of each party. I am sure others have views on this too. jeanette ps I state all this having been caught in a scenario where the father employed a barrister to get information on his child and increase contact arrangements which the mother contested, because of possible

sexual abuse. Cowley <sarah@...> wrote: Good luck with your interview, Onye, and well done for preparing in advance. Perhaps some current student members of Senate, or recently enough qualified to remember what it is like, will chip in with comments/advice. The scenario you have identified is relatively straightforward, because client confidentiality is paramount. It is not an easy situation to deal with, though, becaue you never know when children's residency is going to change. Also, there are different opinions about whether health visitng responsibility is primarily, even solely, about the child, with the parents only being 'secondary' clients, or whether the parents are also clients in their own right. If the latter, you have responsibility to the estranged father as well. But

you could easily get dragged into battles between estranged partners, if you don't keep a very careful line in what you say. You can also be so determined to protect confidentiality, that you cause confusion or offence, if your communication skills are not good enough. I am thinking of a personal (grandmother) experience, when I answered the phone at my son and daughter-in-law's house a week after they had lost a baby and had a very sick 18 month old, with whom they were occupied at the time. At 7.15pm, someone ringing who would only give her first name, would not say who she was or leave a message, but insisted she would ring back later, convinced me she was telephone sales person; I was short to say the least. She did phone again the next day, and was a very concerned health visitor (clearly worried by the time of night she was ringing). I have felt guilty about being so abrupt that since, but wish she had found a way to convey to me at

least who she was. Does anyone else have any comments for Onye?Onye1@... wrote: Yes I am a prospective healthvisiting student, preparing for my interview and thinking about possible senario qustions. Also please throw me some light on anyother senarios that comes to mind. Many thanx.Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.