JhoustonRN

This sounds very much like my unit. We are a separate PP unit, with 46 beds and between 500 & 600 deliveries per month. Our hospital has the only level 1 NICU in a 13 state region so we get all the truly high risk moms. Just my last shift, I started with 4 rooms and only 5 patients, but those patients included a baby under double phototherapy and a 12%weight loss, a 6 day post mag mom with CHTN who's blood pressures had been running 180-200/90-120 and had been receiving IV Labetalol as often as hourly and required manual BPs q 10 minutes plus 800mg PO Labetalol q8h & 90mg PO Nifedipine daily, a 3 day post mag mom with pressures in the 170-180/90-100 with an insulin pump due to type 1 diabetes (who also had a couple of low blood sugars), and a fresh csection mom (