A nurse is preparing to administer an IV fluid bolus of 500 mL 0.9% sodium chloride over 60 min. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 10 gtt/mL. The nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Use a leading zero if it applies. Do not use a trailing zero.)

Total volume to infuse: 500 mL Total time for infusion: 60 minutes Drop factor of the tubing: 10 gtt/mL To find the drops per minute, we can use the following formula: Drops/minute=Total time (minutes)Total volume (mL)×Drop factor (gtt/mL)​ Plugging in the values: Drops/minute=60 minutes500 mL×10 gtt/mL​ Drops/minute=60 minutes5000 gtt​ Drops/minute=83.333... gtt/minute Rounding to the nearest whole number, the nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver 83 gtt/min.