Who draws up medication during C-section?

[pickledpepperRN]

I have to ask because I'm neither an OB-GYN nurse nor a surgical nurse.

I am on a committee at my hospital where the demands of a new physician were discussed.

He does not want medications drawn up, labeled, an ready on the sterile field as is the practice. A circulatine RN will obtain medications not already there and assist in ensuring the integrity of the sterile field.

This doctor wants the unlicensed scrub tech to draw up medications.

In my state only certain licensed professionals including LVNs and RNs may draw up medication and hand it to the doctor to administer to the patient.

Is there a professional organization position statement regarding this?

What is the practice at your facility?

Please excuse my ignorance, I havent done L&D since I was a student. Even then I didn't see a C-section.

[pickledpepperRN]

I just want to thank you nurses for your input.

I'm going to a meeting today and will find out whether they made a decision.

[flytern]

What medications are being drawn up during a C/S?

I've been doing OB for 20 years, and about the only med during C/S

that I've drawn up was Methergine (to stop bleeding)

Any anesthesia drugs are drawn up by anesthesia.

The antibiotic that we give after cord clamping is already in a bag (gotten from pharmacy before hand).

During our C/S's we have: anesthesia, operating MD, assistant (usually an MD in his practice). Scrub tech, circulating nurse, neoped, NICU nurse.

:balloons: :balloons:

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

What medications are being drawn up during a C/S?

I've been doing OB for 20 years, and about the only med during C/S

that I've drawn up was Methergine (to stop bleeding)

Any anesthesia drugs are drawn up by anesthesia.

The antibiotic that we give after cord clamping is already in a bag (gotten from pharmacy before hand).

During our C/S's we have: anesthesia, operating MD, assistant (usually an MD in his practice). Scrub tech, circulating nurse, neoped, NICU nurse.

:balloons: :balloons:

Plain lidocaine, sometimes, on the field.

[HyperTension]

The RN can draw up anything. That does not mean they administer it. Two totally different things.