The nurse enters the room of a client who is taking a nebulizer treatment set up by the respiratory therapist.Which observation by the nurse would be cause for intervening with the treatment?

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Breathing in and out through the nose during a nebulizer treatment is not effective because the medication needs to be inhaled through the mouth to reach the lungs. Nose breathing would significantly reduce the amount of medication reaching the target site, thus the nurse would need to intervene and instruct the client to breathe through the mouth.

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