The perinatal nurse providing care to a laboring woman recognizes a non-reassuring fetal heart rate tracing. An appropriate initial action is to:
A) Assist the laboring woman to a left lateral position
B) Increase the intravenous solution
C) Request that the physician/certified nurse-midwife apply a fetal scalp electrode
D) Document the fetal heart rate and variability
A
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