melwil10

I am a student nurse and I have been having some clinical experience in labor and delivery and the post partum unit. From time to time I feel as though some things that are done in the hospital do not make sense. One thing that really bothered me was how fast patients are taught about their health and the babies immediately after delivery. I mean some women had just delivered less than 3 hours ago and they are being taught about their baby and safety issues, their own health and everything else while they are still woozie from the pain meds given during labor. And then you have the father in the room who is still excited and probably isn't listening either. I was just spectating and with all the information the nurse gave the patient, even i had forgotten most of it within 5 minutes. Anyways I guess my question is, why do discharge teaching or even just so much teaching immediately when I would have to say that the patients ability to learn and retain is not at its best. It almost seems like a waste of the nurses time and the patients time because I am sure that they can't remember everything, especially first time parents. If anyone could please answer my question or maybe shed light into how other hospitals do it, I would greatly appreciate it.