Ambulating labor patients - help

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Hi everyone,

Can someone please tell me how to figure out what implications would be for ambulating a labor patient? Nursing and patient implications? I get so confused between implication/intervention/considerations!

Would it be something like: patient must be assisted by staff or partner while ambulating? Or check vitals/dilation/FHR before ambulating?

Please someone help -_-

Thanks

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Hi, thank you for replying! Okay well I know that there are many things that need to be taken into consideration when ambulating a patient in labor like:

-there must be a physician's order

-must not ambulate if bp is elevated

-must not ambulate if there is abnormal bleeding, or if dilated more than 8cm

-must be of term gestation

-must conduct a NST, and it it should be nonreactive

-cannot ambulate if patient is receiving oxytocin/epidural anesthesia

I just can't figure out if these are interventions or implications? If these are not implications, what would be considered a nursing or patient implication then?

Thanks, any help is appreciated :)

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