The patient who experiences frequent episodes of atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT) that do not cause hemodynamic compromise is being discharged. The nurse is supervising the student nurse providing discharge teaching to the patient. Which method for self-treatment of AVNRT, if taught by the student nurse, would prompt the nurse to intervene immediately?
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