The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient Who Is Showing

question 32

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a patient who is showing a sinusoidal fetal heart rate pattern on the monitor. The nurse knows that possible causes for this pattern include:

• A) Fetal anemia.
• B) Chronic fetal bleeding.
• C) Maternal hypotension.
• D) Twin-to-twin transfusion.
• E) Umbilical cord occlusion.

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The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

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The process by which substances are taken up from the environment into the bloodstream or into cells.

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