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? "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." "Salicylates take longer to deteriorate than other drugs."

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