After entering the patient's room to administer oral medications, which action will the nurse take first?
a. Assist the patient to sit upright.
b. Check the patient's identification.
c. Inform the patient about the medications.
d. Offer the patient something to drink.
ANS: B
Checking the patient's identification is the first nursing action once at the bedside. Assisting the patient to sit upright is appropriate when administering oral medications, but this is not the first thing the nurse would do. Providing information about medications is appropriate, but it is not the first thing the nurse would do. Offering the patient something to drink to facilitate swallowing of medications is appropriate, but it is not the first thing the nurse would do.
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