JulesNC

It is hard to say no, especially when someone who others say is more powerful is bullying you. I can remember more times than I care to admit this type of thing happening to me when I was a new nurse. But always remind yourself when you are in this situation, YOU DO NOT WORK FOR THE DOCTOR!! No matter what they may think! The hospital employs you to take care of patients, not doctors. I always tell my students to look at a situation and make sure you are acting in the patients best interest before you proceed, for both moral, and unfortunately in todays world, legal reasons too! You sound like you are doing fine, and remember you are not alone. Stay strong! :)

Thank you all for your input, everyone has lots of valid points. I do agree wholeheartedly with those who said we need to be sure not to judge any woman's birth choices, as we never really know the story behind it, and it is honestly usually none of our business! PART 2 Other than talk among other nurses, has anyone ever tried to express their concern to the OBs or Nurse Managers? I know when I was working the floor it was rare for us to complain to anyone other than other nurses. Has anyone asked the "dinner time cutters" about the practice? I would love to hear their answer! I also want to make it very clear that I am in no way anti OB/Gyn or anti C-section when needed, even if that need is from an extreme fear of childbirth, especially among those that have already experienced a traumatic birth! I just worry that we aren't taking the best possible care of our moms, as we expose them and their babies to higher risks, many times without them having all the facts. We can say it is not our issue as it is the docs doing it, but shouldn't we fight for our patients? Not trying to create guilt or anything, as the reality of needing to feed our own families is their for us all, but just trying to understand the reasons behind why the system just seems to get worse, and further away from evidenced based practice! Anyone got any ideas as to how to work on this issue?

Hi all, I am an RN who is getting her PhD, why I am still not sure most days, but as my background is all maternal-child I was looking into the idea of maternal request c-sections, the "too posh to push" theory, and was wondering if you all had any opinions on this. (Usually you can count on nurses for their opinions!) In my experience it often seemed like the elective sections frequently thought it was the docs idea, (baby too big, etc), while the docs are calling that patient choice, which I guess it is, but as a nurse and therefore a patient advocate it concerns me that many patients seem to think the section was the only choice. I am not disagreeing that some patients are requesting c-sections, just wondering if the numbers are as high as the media seems to make it and if we are really educating them well enough on the topic. Any thoughts? Thanks for any and all input!