The client in active labor for over 10 hours is fully dilated but is showing no progress toward delivery. The health care provider orders an oxytocin (Pitocin) injection. The nurse should prepare to give the drug by which route?
1. Intravenously mixed in D5W
2. Intravenous bolus injection
3. Intramuscularly diluted in saline
4. Nasal spray (both nostrils)
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