The healthcare provider prescribes a hydration infusion of normal saline to run over 3 hours at 30 mL/kg for a client who is dehydrated and weighs 70 kg. The nurse should program the infusion pump to deliver how many mL/hour? (Enter numeric value only.)

To find out how many mL/hour the infusion pump should deliver, we need to first calculate the total volume of normal saline that the client needs to receive over 3 hours. To do this, we need to multiply the prescribed volume per kilogram by the client's weight in kilograms. Therefore, the total volume of normal saline that the client needs to receive is 30 x 70 = 2100 mL. Next, we need to divide this total volume by the number of hours that it should run over. Since there are 3 hours, we can divide 2100 mL by 3 to get the infusion rate in mL/hour. The result is 2100 / 3 = 700 mL/hour.