MickeymomRN

An ER resident was doing his OB rotation and was on shift. I had a resident multip OB patient being induced for labor. I was working night shift. He came in around 0300 after I worked very hard to get her to relax and go to sleep. Yes, he woke her up and I found him at the bedside telling her that since she wasn't making any progress that she was going to have a c-section. I walked out before he finished his conversation and he found me at my computer documenting. I asked what his name was. He confronted me and said that there seemed to be some hostility. I told him no, no hostility but just wanted to documented who woke up the patient and was giving her false information and causing her anxiety. He then proceeds to tell me that the patient had been in labor for Xhrs and that she was not making any progress requiring a c-section. I informed him that she wasn't in labor yet so a c-section wasn't warranted and the attending physician didn't call a c-section so he had no place to tell the patient that (she had no prior c-section). He then says (with two other RNs at my sides) "the pt has been contracting every 2 minutes so she's in labor).... all three of us RNs said in reply in unison, "labor is regular contractions WITH cervical change"..... and here's the funny part, he says "that's what my little black book says"..... we just laughed and laughed and laughed... outcome? My patient finally delivered at 0730 lady partsLLY!!!!