If a physician orders iron sucrose injection 100mg IVP monthly for a dialysis patient, how much should the nurse administer every other week?

When a physician orders iron sucrose injection 100 mg to be administered monthly, this dosage needs to be adjusted for administration every other week.

To break it down, if the patient is to receive 100 mg every month, and a month is roughly four weeks, administering it every other week corresponds to two doses in a month. This means you would divide the total monthly dose by the number of administrations within that month.

Dividing 100 mg by 2 (because you would administer the dose twice within the month) results in a requirement of 50 mg for each administration every other week. This ensures that the patient receives a total of 100 mg within the month, as per the physician's order. Therefore, administering 50 mg IVP every other week is the correct approach for ensuring the patient's treatment remains consistent with the prescribed plan.