In a routine prenatal visit,the nurse examining a patient who is 37 weeks pregnant notices that the fetal heart rate (FHR) has dropped to 120 beats/min from a rate of 160 beats/min earlier in the pregnancy.The nurse should:
A) ask if the patient has taken a sedative.
B) notify the physician.
C) turn the patient to her right side.
D) record rate as a normal finding.
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