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The nurse supervises an unlicensed assistant personnel (UAP) who is taking the blood pressure of 58-yr-old obese female patient admitted with heart failure. Which action by the UAP will require the nurse to intervene?
- Waiting 2 minutes after position changes to take orthostatic pressures
- Deflating the blood pressure cuff at a rate of 8 to 10 mm Hg per second
- Taking the blood pressure with the patient's arm at the level of the heart
- Taking a forearm blood pressure because the largest cuff will not fit the patient's upper arm

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