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A nurse is providing discharge teaching for a patient with a fractured humerus. The patient is going home with Vicodin (5/325). What important patient education does the nurse provide?
 
  a. Be sure to eat a meal high in fat before taking the medication, to avoid a stomach ulcer.
  b. Narcotics can be addictive, so do not take them unless you are in severe pain.
  c. You need to drink plenty of fluids and eat a diet high in fiber.
  d. As your pain severity lessens, you will begin to give yourself once-daily intramuscular injections.
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