The nurse is preparing to assess a client who is pregnant and has no personal history of diabetes but does have a parent with diabetes. Which of the following actions should the nurse plan to take on this initial prenatal visit?

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Clients at high risk for gestational diabetes should be screened for diabetes on the initial prenatal visit. An oral glucose tolerance test may also be used to check for diabetes, but it would be done before the twenty-fourth week. The other actions may also be needed (depending on whether the client develops gestational diabetes), but they are not the first actions that the nurse should take.

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