Topics About 'Pitocin'.

The question to increase, maintain, or decrease Pitocin is a long-aged question, asked frequently by nurses working in labor and delivery areas. Even though this very question has been asked countless times over a multitude of years, there is st...

I have a scenario that I need feedback on. I've just finished my first year of L and D nursing and need a more experienced perspective on how I managed my Pitocin induction last night. So, the Pt was a G1 P0 at 38.6 weeks who was being induced f...

So, I'm in nursing school now and I've had some experience previously in women's health and OB. I've also been a doula. I hope to be able to work as and L and D nurse when I graduate. My question is for the L and D nurses out there...... About wha...

Hello, I just have a question. I work on the ambulance as a medic and one of our crews got called for a woman in labor (it was a planned home birth). On their arrival it was just the mom and father, and the baby had already been delivered. The m...

I had a CNM tell me to push 10u Pitocin IV the other day. I've never seen it ordered that way (even 20+ years ago) so I had to look into it and ended up not doing it based on pharmacy recommendations. Is this something that you have seen or done? We ...

Can anyone provide help with the following med math problem? Client is admitted to labor and delivery for a trial induction. Order reads: Begin Pitocin at 2 milliunits per minute and increase by 1 milliunit every 15 minutes until 3 good con...