A patient is in an urgent care center and is
receiving treatment for mild hyponatremia after spending several hours doing gardening work in the heat of the day. The nurse expects that which drug therapy will be used to treat this condition?
a. Oral supplementation of fluids
b. Intravenous bolus of lactated Ringer's solution
c. Normal saline infusion, administered slowly
d. Oral administration of sodium chloride tablets
ANS: D
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a. research problem. b. purpose statement. c. null hypothesis. d. research hypothesis.
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True False