Calling all maternity nurses!!!

Don't have the answer to your question, but just wanted to say you might want to ask this on OB/GYN nurse specialty board. :)

Im posting this in the non-student section because i need a nurse to answer this!

im a junior nursing student and im in my maternity rotation right now. We were all assigned a labor to take part in and write a 30 page paper on our experience!!

anyway, the mom i was assigned to had lactated ringers. i cannot for the life of me read what i wrote down as the drip rate!!!! it LOOKS like 75ml/hour.

Does that sound about right???

I have other questions i'd love to ask a maternity nurse....as everything went SOOO quick with my mom i didnt have a whole lot of time to talk with the nurse i was with.

Sure, 75ml/hr is perfectly feasible for an L&D patient.

Wow! A 30 page paper? I would NEVER assign that (I'm a professor)......I have 30 students! Let me see....that would be 900 pages to read!! Even with teaching assistants, that's just massive.

Good luck with your paper :)

75 sounds good to me!

we run it but not on a pump. It depends at what point the fluids are running. For instance, prior to epidural you want to bolus them. After the epidural it depends on how hydrated the pt is, if pitocin is running and how much fluids they have had and any other patient specific factors such as any chronic diseases (chronic lung disease, kidney function that's impaired.)