a nurse is caring for a two day old newborn who was born at 35 weeks of gestation period which of the following action should the nurse take? (Click on the exhibit button for additional information about the newborn. There are three tabs that contain separate categories of data.) **Nurses notes : decrease activity level over the last 12 hours, abdominal distention, three bloody stools over the last 8 hours, superficial rash on the abdominal wall, light palpation of the abdomen leads to fist clenching, thrashing, and crying.
a. Insert an or go gastric decompression tube with low wall suction
b. administer nitric oxide inhalation therapy to the newborn
c. measure the abdominals circumference at the level of the newborns in umbilicus every 12 hours
d. provide the newborn with an iron rich formula containing vitamin B12 every two hours
