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The client has difficulty swallowing and requests the nurse crush all medications. the nurse notes that the client has been prescribed an extended release opioid. the nurse should contact the health care provider because:

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certain diseases have difficulty swallowing and maybe the medication is something that should not be crushed and you need to find a different way of giving them the medicine. Shot, IV fluid?
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