The client is taking Flonase in the home setting. Once the client's symptoms have subsided; the nurse's highest priority instruction to the client should be to reduce the spray to:
a. three times daily.
b. two times daily.
c. once daily.
d. once every other day.
ANS: C
Once the client's symptoms have decreased, Flonase should be decreased to one spray daily.
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