When caring for a client receiving a secondary oxytocin infusion to induce or augment labor, the nurse would NOT discontinue the oxytocin in which of these situations?
a. when contractions occur every 2 minutes
b. when the fetal monitor shows no variability
c. when the contractions are of 40 to 60 seconds' duration
d. when the fetal monitor shows prolonged decelerations
C
Discontinue the secondary oxytocin infusion if the following occurs: contractions are more frequent than every 2 minutes and last more than 90 seconds, fetal late or prolonged decelerations, or no variability.
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