Your patient is a 5.5kg canine and he needs 0.5mg/kg of a medication given SQ. This medications concentration is 5mg/mL. What would the patients dose be, how would it be given and what size syringe would you use?

Anurse recently administered filgrastim intravenously to a client who has cancer and is receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy. for which of the following data, discovered after the medication was administered, should the nurse consider filling an incident report? a. the client had chemotherapy 12 hr before the medication was administered. b. the nurse flushed the client’s iv line with d5w before and after the medication was administered. c. the client’s absolute neutrophil count was 2,500/mm^3 before the medication was administered. d. the medication vial sat at the room temperature for 2 hr before it was administered.