Djknurse

My current job says we have to have LR as a main line. They use anesthesia tubing, connected directly to IV site hanging by gravity and clamped off. Then hang another LR infusing on pump at 75 ml/hr and magnesium on second chamber infusing at 50 ml/hr. Per management, this is awhonn standard to have a mainline of LR. I've never worked anywhere else that we had to have a bag of LR connected to infuse by gravity but clamped off. Is this really an awhonn standard? I've always just considered my LR infusing on a pump to be my primary line. Is mainline and primary line two different things? How do you hang magnesium at your hospital?

We take pp mag patients on our antepartum unit. What is staffing guidelines for these patients. We do not chart or assess the babies. The postpartum nurses do that. However....these mothers do call out for us for help with the babies.