# 37. Administering Intravenous Medication like Rocephin from a 50 milliliter bag (IV piggyback).
If only the Nursing instructors and textbooks would guide students or nurses on how to program an IV pump to give the entire dose of IV antibiotics.
Use Holt's 30 CC rule to calculate and program the right VTBI to give the entire dose of IV antibiotic.
Adapted from "25 to 50 percent of IV antibiotics do not reach the patient," by David Holt.
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