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The elderly client has just returned home from the hospital after treatment for chronic heart failure. The client experiences a pulse rate increase from 80 beats per minute to 102 beats per minute when walking between the kitchen and the utility room to do laundry. Which of the following are appropriate nursing actions for the home health nurse?     

A) Encourage the client to accomplish tasks like laundry early in the morning before fatigue is an issue.
B) Encourage the client to rest for 30 minutes between each load of laundry completed.
C) Recommend that the client ignore the pulse rate and become more active in order to build stamina.
D) Encourage the client to keep a chair near the washer/dryer unit and sit to rest when the client feels their pulse rate increase.
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