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A patient at a community health center has been prescribed oral medications and tells the nurse that medications were administered intravenously when the patient was in the hospital.
 
  The nurse discusses the benefits and disadvantages of oral medications, including which facts?
  1. The oral route is considered the second safest route, after the intradermal route.
  2. Tablets that are scored may be crushed for easier swallowing.
  3. Enteric-coated drugs are designed to dissolve in the stomach, not the small intestine.
  4. A major disadvantage of oral medications is that the patient must be conscious and able to swallow.
  5. Enteric-coated drugs should be crushed to help facilitate dissolving by the stomach acid.
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