A patient with a jugular CVAD is experiencing fever, malaise, nausea, and has a high WBC count. The CVAD insertion site appears red, inflamed and is painful to touch. The nurse suspects the patient is experiencing a septic infection. Doctors orders are to obtain blood cultures and begin broad spectrum antibiotics. What should the nurse do?A. Hang the antibiotics immediately to begin treating the infectionB. Administer the antibiotics, wait 1 hr and then obtain the blood culturesC. Hold the antibiotics until the blood culture have been drawnD. Monitor vital signs only

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