After an hour of administering oxytocin intravenously, you assess a woman's contractions to be 80 seconds in length. Your first action would be to
A) slow the infusion to under 10 gtt per minute.
B) increase the flow rate of the main line infusion.
C) discontinue the oxytocin infusion.
D) continue to monitor contraction duration every 2 hours.
C
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a. Descriptive b. Correlational c. Experimental d. Quasi-experimental