The nurse is caring for a woman who is 28 weeks pregnant and has been hospitalized with moderate bleeding. The patient is currently sleeping on the left side. While checking the fetal monitor tape the nurse notices that the tracing is a nonreassuring patt
A) Administer oxygen to the patient
B) Notify the patient's family
C) Reposition the patient in a semirecumbent position on the back
D) Decrease the rate of IV fluids
Ans: A
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