Going up against a doc...

[MalgaBSN]

Anyone else had experience with OBs saying "I'm going to check this patient now and in an hour and if there is no change we are sectioning her," and then wondering about the doc lying? I was in this situation the other day and it put me in a horrible spot and when I mentioned it to another nurse I work with she said that at least two of the OBs she knows does that to get someone sectioned when they want to get outta there :angryfire.

I am relatively new (new grad-- 8 months in L&D on a unit that does about 1200 births a year) and I don't feel completely secure in my cervical checks all the time. I feel like if I did-- if I had been there longer, I could have felt confident in standing up to this doc more. As another nurse said "you would be blacklisted," but I don't care-- I'm not there to work in the docs best interest, but its such a hard situation.

[OzMW]

You're a good six!" so the MD comes in 20 minutes later, does an exam and in front of the pt "Kristin, I think you need to put on a glove so we can calibrate our exams. your 6 is definitely my 4..." I have taped a little ruler to the back of my badge and I know the difference between a good 6 and a 4... so anyway, I put on a glove, check the pt while she stands there and says, "see she's really a 4 isn't she?" No joke! "shave her for her section"

She has a ruler on her ID badge to measure her VEs?????????????????????????????????????????? Freakin hell:down: