When you enter your patient's ICU room, you notice immediately that the patient has several machines running with tubing attached to the patient. You are planning to assist the patient to the bedside chair and note that one of the machines (with an IV tube) is on the side of the bed opposite the chair and monitoring equipment. What should you do?
A) Change your plan to include only supine bed activities.
B) Contact the patient's nurse and ask him or her to reposition the IV.
C) Defer your treatment until the patient's IV is removed or replaced.
D) Disconnect the IV and reposition the machine on the other side of the bed.
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