A woman who is at 30 weeks' gestation has been on terbutaline therapy for 24 hours. The physician prescribes continuation of the therapy for the next 48 hours. Appropriate nursing action would be to
A) encourage the patient to get into the semi-Fowler position.
B) hang another IV bag with medication using an IV pump.
C) plan to administer oral terbutaline.
D) dilute the medication with saline before adding it to the IV bag.
C
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