Nurse is reconciling medications for client

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The nurse is reconciling medications for a client who brought their home medications to the primary care clinic. The client states they have not used a single pill from an over-the-counter bottle of magnesium salicylate and states they "should just drink apple-cider vinegar because it smells the same." What is the best response from the nurse? "Salicylates take longer to deteriorate than other drugs." "You can take them with orange juice to help with the smell." "That's a sign the pills are deteriorating." "They smell the same because they have the same action."

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