A nurse is preparing to administer Ringer's lactate by continuous IV infusion at 120 mL/hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 60 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.)

Infusion rate: 120 mL/hr Drop factor of the tubing: 60 gtt/mL First, we need to convert the infusion rate from mL/hr to mL/min: Infusion rate (mL/min)=60 minutes/hourInfusion rate (mL/hr)​ Infusion rate (mL/min)=60 minutes/hour120 mL/hr​=2 mL/min Now we can calculate the drops per minute using the drop factor: Drops/minute=Infusion rate (mL/min)×Drop factor (gtt/mL) Drops/minute=2 mL/min×60 gtt/mL=120 gtt/min Therefore, the nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver 120 gtt/min.