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My group and I have to come up with a skit or a video on postpartum hemorrhaging. UGH! I guess I am not that creative because I can't seem to come up with any ideas. The instructor said that we need to either make her laugh or cry! I was wondering if any of you creative people out there have any suggestions....it would be so appreciated!!

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Maybe make a video with someone in a hospital gown and her hair all messy and have her deliver a baby (doll) and have her be so happy and all the nurses look at the baby and then have a red sheet and keep flashing back to mom and have the red sheet get bigger and bigger (hemmorage) and have the nurses look startled and keep trying to clean it up....then have a nursing student that obviously says "nursing student" (or the name of your school) explain to the nurses what they should do and what is most likely happening? Have the student nurse say something like, "I guess you didn't have Mrs. ______(your instructor's name) during ___ semester! We did a video on that! That's the best I can come up with.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

as a former thespian, i would go with a drama. comedy is too difficult.

the scene: a home setting/home delivery where there is no emergency equipment. for believability to might want to make it on the old prairie 100 years ago before resuscitation equipment.

the situation: the mother goes into hemorrhage after the delivery. look up the signs and symptoms of what happens as hemorrhage proceeds and is untreated. you are going to lose this mother as she bleeds out and goes into shock and dies while the class watches on in shock themselves. make it good. you might even get the audience involved like asking someone to come up and continue to try massaging the mother's fundus in an attempt to try to get it to hardened and stop the bleeding. your focus is for whoever plays the mother to act out the symptoms of shock and, of course, die. the baby lives. it would be terrific if you could find a historical famous person who's mother died this way.

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Specializes in 2 years as CNA.
Maybe make a video with someone in a hospital gown and her hair all messy and have her deliver a baby (doll) and have her be so happy and all the nurses look at the baby and then have a red sheet and keep flashing back to mom and have the red sheet get bigger and bigger (hemmorage) and have the nurses look startled and keep trying to clean it up....then have a nursing student that obviously says "nursing student" (or the name of your school) explain to the nurses what they should do and what is most likely happening? Have the student nurse say something like, "I guess you didn't have Mrs. ______(your instructor's name) during ___ semester! We did a video on that! That's the best I can come up with.

I like this idea and love the line about guess you didn't have Mrs. _____.

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For background music, you could play "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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Thank you to everyone for your help-great ideas!!:yeah:

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Specializes in 2 years as CNA.

Let us know what you decide to do and how it goes.

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