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Drug Preparations: Best Action When a Client Cannot Swallow an Unscored Caplet

Select a suitable oral formulation response and explain why the unscored caplet should not be split independently.

Question

An ordered oral medicine comes as a large caplet without a score line. The client declines it because the tablet is too big to swallow. Choose the best nursing response.

  1. Persuade the client to swallow the supplied caplet.
  2. Ask the prescriber to change to intravenous administration.
  3. Divide the caplet into two pieces to make swallowing easier.
  4. Ask the pharmacist for the medicine in oral solution form.

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This complete paraphrase preserves the scenario and all four choices of OpenStax Pharmacology for Nurses, Chapter 2 Review Question 9. The source key supports option 4. No medicine name, dose, liquid concentration, swallowing assessment, or release formulation is provided, so no dose conversion or specific replacement product can be supplied. The answer identifies the best offered action, not an authorization to substitute or split medication independently.