VagabondRN

Thank you for all your responses. I will just chart MVU's hourly like I have always done, or if increasing pitocin. I think it is ridiculous to chart every 15 for a 10 minute time period, it is like continuous charting. If someone says something to me, I will just explain my reasons why since there is no standard. I have 11 weeks left on this assignment, so I just have to make it through that short period of time, and then hope my next assignment is in a hospital with less invasive monitoring.

Does anyone know the ACOG or AWHONN standards for how frequently you should figure and chart MVU's? Or is there even a standard? I am a travel nurse, and the facility I am at now places IUPC's in every patient. We are expected to chart MVU's every 15 minutes. Does anyone else think that is unnecessary? I have always figured and charted mvu's hourly, with fht and contraction pattern every 15 minutes in active labor, while eyeballing the strip the rest of the time to look for problems. This is a very small hospital with antiquated charting procedures, most of which I can deal with, but this MVU thing is driving me crazy!! :confused: