Nursing Students Student Assist
Published Oct 16, 2014
bowser21
3 Posts
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
Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN
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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 :)