The nurse is assessing the baseline fetal heart rate for a client in labor.
What action should the nurse take first?
A) Measure the fetal heart rate for 10 minutes
B) Round the heart rate to increments of 5 beats/minute
C) Exclude periods of marked variation
D) Calculate the mean (average) heart rate
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