The nurse, planning to assess a client's respirations, realizes that the process of ventilation includes:
1. moving air into and out of the lungs to deliver fresh air to the alveoli.
2. alveolar gas exchange.
3. the end stages of oxygenation.
4. pulmonic circulation.
ANS: 1
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