I'm a graduate nurse (took my NCLEX last week) and I work on a postpartum floor in a rural hospital, and for the most part, I love it. I'm just a little baffled by some of the visitors we get -- we get them at all times of the day and night, regardless of when the delivery was. Visiting hours end at 9pm and people seem to think that they can just come waltzing in b/c the mom delivered after 9pm. It's like HELLO? This woman's been in labor all day, has been through a delivery and it's now BEDTIME!! I've had patients that have had probably 10 people in our little private rooms less than 5 minutes after we get them into the bed on the postpartum unit. And then, while you're doing frequent vital signs and have to check the patient's fundus, lochia, etc., the people in the room make a big deal of us asking them to step out! What's the deal? I realize this is a big thing, new member of the family and all that, but good grief! Provided there are no complications, mother and baby will be home the following day - does everybody and their dog really need to come visit in the hospital?
Anybody else feel this way? Thanks for letting me vent...
OK, how weird is this??? Last week, I had a pt that had her father in the room for delivery. He was the "cameraman". I thought it was really weird that he would video all of the SVE's, but OK, so they wanted documentation of how she was progressing. Although weird, I guess I can deal with that. Well, here is the really weird part. After the baby was born, instead of videoing the baby being footprinted, banded, wrapped in blankets etc, he filmed the epis being sewed up. AND, he had the nerve to ask the MD to "move a little to the left", he was in the way. Finally the MD finally said "No, I can't move, maybe you should video the baby."
Well, if that wasn't bad enough, the very next shift I worked, I had a 16 yo that wanted pictures of the fse and iupc so, mom got the camera and she spread 'em and they got pics. I don't remember seeing a page in any baby book for something like that!!!!
canoehead, i have to agree with you it was miserable working in those conditions but the doc was friends with them and let them get away with it, i tripped over the camera several times, not to mention was very diffucult to avoid needle sticks walking around room with used needles. our rooms are big but it was still very diffucult
I was forced to take a pic of my niece crowning. Yep. You read that right. My sister wanted a pic of EVERYTHANG. :chuckle Even a pic of the placenta.........mmmmmmmmm.....
So do ya think Creative Memories has a layout for bloody birthing lady parts shots???
What ever happened to the days when the dads got to pace in the waiting room filled with smoke from cigars and cigarrettes and the the md or rn came out afterwards to let them know all was ok.
Birth as a bonding experience, yuck. Even my wife says to do it all over again she would rather I go out golfing or to a bar or something. And I was even her L and D nurse for 2 of the births.
I don't mind family visitors, as long as it's okay with the patient. (I do ask, as part of the admission, who she wants with her and when so I can make sure her requests are honored.) BUT . . . I have a really hard time with doctors bringing their wives/children (female teens especially) into the delivery. (One doc even had his wife come in and watch a c/s.) They usually don't ask the patient (unless they made these arrangements at the office). One midwife who works at our hospital asked a patient during transition if her *bf* could attend the delivery! The patient said yes and he did! I am absolutely appaled at the abuse of their "power".
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weird one here: pt had her UNCLE in the shower w/her while she labored, yes she was nekkid as the day she came.....and yes, he certainly was holding her hand while she pushed baby out. no other family but him. no way did i have THAT tight a relationship with ANY uncle o'mine! toooooooo wierd for me!:uhoh21:
weird one here: pt had her UNCLE in the shower w/her while she labored, yes she was nekkid as the day she came.....and yes, he certainly was holding her hand while she pushed baby out. no other family but him. no way did i have THAT tight a relationship with ANY uncle o'mine! toooooooo wierd for me!:uhoh21:
Insane visitors, indeed! Awhile back, we had a precip, unattended delivery, where the husband was an (drum roll, please!)...a FOOT doctor. And, oh, how he reminded us OVER AND OVER that he was a doctor! Well, we get his multip wife into bed, pull down her pants, and she is crowning! (Was 8 in triage)
I am grabbing my gloves, and we have plenty of help in the room (other nurses, and our scrub tech)
Well...wouldn't you know that, as we call overhead for "any OB or ER doc to L&D STAT" this FOOT doctor shoves us out of the way, yells, "I AM a doctor!" and proceeds to shove both his ungloved, dirty hands up in her lady parts, before the baby's head was halfway out! I think he was remembering to check for a cord, but must've forgotten that you check when the head is delivered, and there is a LITTLE more room!
We were all like EEEWWWWW!!! Not to mention OUCH!!!
Thank God the baby came out pink and screaming...because he even seemed to think that it would be his place to do any resuscitation if necessary!
that is a good one ob4me, i never had that happen yet, but recently had a pt whos husband was a dermatologist , they asked plenty questions and was anoying at times but when it came time for delivery the ob did not make I delivered the baby he had no interest in putting his hands down there,:)
OB4ME - that reminds me of a patient we had that had thought she was going into labor. Well, this was her first baby, but hubby's 3rd or 4th or 5th or something, and he was pretty sure he knew what he was doing.......
She had already lost alot of blood by the time she got to the hospital, but they fixed her up, and she'll probably be fine to have a few more kiddos with that idiot.
Most MD dads that I have seen don't want anything to do with the delivery. I had a neurosurgeon that wouldn't even watch the delivery, let alone cut the cord.
And then, while you're doing frequent vital signs and have to check the patient's fundus, lochia, etc., the people in the room make a big deal of us asking them to step out! What's the deal? I realize this is a big thing, new member of the family and all that, but good grief! Provided there are no complications, mother and baby will be home the following day - does everybody and their dog really need to come visit in the hospital? 
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OK, how weird is this??? Last week, I had a pt that had her father in the room for delivery. He was the "cameraman". I thought it was really weird that he would video all of the SVE's, but OK, so they wanted documentation of how she was progressing. Although weird, I guess I can deal with that. Well, here is the really weird part. After the baby was born, instead of videoing the baby being footprinted, banded, wrapped in blankets etc, he filmed the epis being sewed up. AND, he had the nerve to ask the MD to "move a little to the left", he was in the way. Finally the MD finally said "No, I can't move, maybe you should video the baby."
Well, if that wasn't bad enough, the very next shift I worked, I had a 16 yo that wanted pictures of the fse and iupc so, mom got the camera and she spread 'em and they got pics. I don't remember seeing a page in any baby book for something like that!!!!
SOME PEOPLE'S KIDS!!!!!!!!!!