Blood pressure monitoring during an induction

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  1. How often should blood pressures be taken during an induction with pitocin

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      Every 15 minutes
    • 3
      Every 30 minutes
    • 6
      Hourly
    • 0
      Every couple of hours, unless preeclamptic
    • 0
      Blood pressures, who cares about that?

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Specializes in Labor & Delivery; Medical-surgical.

At my hospital it's policy to take a patient's blood pressure every 15 minutes when being induced with pitocin regardless of the reason for the induction. Several nurses in my department are trying to find evidence based practice for blood pressures during an induction. We've not found any reasoning for the amount of blood pressure monitoring we do and we're hoping to decrease this amount. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Specializes in L&D.

With pitocin inductions, we take a BP with each dosage increase (depends on if it's "slow pit" or "rapid pit"). Rapid pit is Q15 min, slow pit is Q30 min. Maintaining the pit drip is BP Q30min.

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Specializes in OB.

Our hospital does the vitals hourly until second stage, then it is every 30 min. Pitocin doesn't generally have a profound effect on BP, so why Q 15 min??

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