Triaging patient on labor and delivery

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You are triaging a patient on labor and delivery and have had a patient who is 38 weeks along on the monitors for 40 minutes. The fetal heart rate tracing baseline has been within normal range, but nonreactive for the entire time. What action would you take at this time? Contact the provider and request admit orders for an induction. Start an IV, and let your charge nurse know you have an admit. Discharge the patient home with instructions on performing fetal kick counts and to come in for her regular appointment next week. A nonreactive NST at 38 weeks is a normal finding. Place the vibroacoustic stimulator on the patient's abdomen where you estimate the fetal head to be and proceed to acoustically stimulate the fetus. Insist the patient give you a urine sample for a urine drug screen. If the fetus is unreactive, the patient may have done some sort of illicit drug and the medical team needs to know how to proceed.

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