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What are nursing interventions when a patient is given oxytocin?
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∙ 16y ago
Check vitals every 15minutes and contractions carefully. Check the protocol/policy of the health care agency and follow then. A doctor must remain on site. The worse S.E. is rupture of the uterus. A patient was being given this drug and the doctor told me he was leaving. I told him that I was stopping the drug because he needed to remain on site. He did not leave.
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What hormone is given to pregnant women to stimulate her uterus to contract and begin labor?
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From oxytocin and prostagladins which increase uterine muscle contraction?
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State the function of the hormones oxytocin?
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What women are at highest risk for incontinence?
Women at highest risk are those who have given birth to more than three children and women who were given oxytocin to induce labor.
