When do you move your pt to post-partum?

[princess99]

How long do you keep your delivered pts? Do you have to wait until they can void before you move them? Until the IV is out? Everyone in L&D tells me one hour max, but that just seems too short. Then the postpartum nurses get mad because they have to help the pt to the br for the first time or whatever.

[crysobrn]

I work in a smaller hospital therefore we usually keep our delivered pts and move them as time allows after the deliveries. Depending on how much is going on in the delivery room it generally takes us about 1.5-2hrs to move our patients. We almost always get them in the br on the way to the pp room and they void, get cleaned up and are instructed in peri care.