I don't know why but that statement makes my jaw clench up everytime I hear it.
I had a patient the other day ask me how I was going to insert a foley since "the head is down there, wont that hurt the baby?" For the love god, people .... come on .. 2 HOLES! SERIOUSLY!
and my favorite of all time ...
"Does that machine beep everytime I dilate?" .. this one left me speechless
Please share your "omg, no she didn't say/ask that" quotes
the one that tops my career is: "oh you don't need to check me, my boyfriend checked me before we came and i'm at 3 cm now." you want to ask why did you come - do it yourself.
This was from my grandmother. I just graduated on June 10th with my ADN. I talked to my grandmother over the phone and she says, "It took you that long just to get your ADN, why didn't you get your BSN? You can do so much more with a bachelor's degree." She really hurt my feelings!
My dad is always asking me if I'm going back to school to get my MD and I always say no way! I would never want to be an MD!
Jessica
OH MY GOSH - Do we have the same Grandmother??? We must!!!
"When I worked in HIV education, I heard this all the time. I kept condoms with me to demonstrate that a latex condom can be stretched over the entire fist. Couple that with a silent, single eyebrow raise, and the look on the guy's faces was claaaaaassic."
Dont ask me how I know this but you can actually fit one over your entire head.
hi i am a 2nd year nursing student very interested in gyne and wanting to be come a midwife. my last placement was on gyne and there was the early pregnency assessment unit on the ward for if any pregnant patient up to 18 weeks had any problems. all the time i would see things written live p1g4 and i just wondered what it meant.
G means gravida and is the # of pregnancies the woman has had. Usually that is given 1st. P means para and is the # of deliveries she's had. In your example, the pt has been pregnant 4 times and has delivered 1 baby.
All right, I've been watching this thread for a while now and just have to share a story about myself. My wife had gastric bypass surgery almost a year before we got pregnant. While she was pregnant she started having complications from the gastric bypass. She was in and out of the hospital for about 2 months before they decided at 6 months to remove her galbladder. Well it turns out that it wasn't her galbladder at all and that a 3" section of her intestines had died and she needed a bowel resection done 2 days later. That night she ended up going into labor and being airlifted to another hospital where she stayed for 1.5 months because our daughter was breech the whole time and my wife was 3cm.
Anyway, while she was at the other hospital, one of the doctors was discussing with her the possibility of doing a c-section. I knew that my wife was worried about this possibility and so I made some kind of off-handed remark about how it wasn't really major surgery anyway to put her mind at ease and saying it in reference to everything else she had already been through.
Well it's safe to say that I got a good lecture from the doc about how major that surgery was and how I shouldn't discount it as such. Believe me, I'll never make that mistake again.
My wife reminded me of another one tonight, also regarding c-sections.
Her friend was recently pregnant with twins. During one of their dr. visits they were told that there was a good chance that they would have to do a c-section even after starting natural labor. The dr. told her that he would give her the choice of trying to deliver naturaly or just going ahead with the c-section.
After they go home her husband had the nerve to tell her: "I think if you just go ahead and have the c-section, then you're just taking the easy way out!" :rotfl:
hi i am a 2nd year nursing student very interested in gyne and wanting to be come a midwife. my last placement was on gyne and there was the early pregnency assessment unit on the ward for if any pregnant patient up to 18 weeks had any problems. all the time i would see things written live p1g4 and i just wondered what it meant.
No you are not. Your wife/girlfriend is pregnant, both of you are expecting a baby.
I hear this a lot from casual work acquaintances not just patients. Having a baby is a joyous occasion that everyone would certainly want to share the happy news. I just wish the father of baby would say "My wife and I are expecting in baby." I think it diminishes the womens' hard work of pregnancy and delivery when men announce that they are pregnant.
"So what time is the baby going to be born?" If I could predict this I would be very rich!
"How much does the baby weigh?" Right after birth, while the baby is still on mom's chest, or as the NICU team is bagging the baby. Maybe we should make sure the baby is breathing first.
I know my job is to educate people, but sometimes it takes all of my willpower to not say something I would regret.
its always by every person in the room thats not employed there-"what time is the baby coming?" or "how long is it going to take" while they look at their watch/clock on the wall. and 5 or 6 times after delivery "so how much does the baby weigh" even though we tell them the baby gets weighed in the nursery. and they ask everyone who walks in that room in scrubs or a uniform "how much does the baby weigh"
No you are not. Your wife/girlfriend is pregnant, both of you are expecting a baby.
I hear this a lot from casual work acquaintances not just patients. Having a baby is a joyous occasion that everyone would certainly want to share the happy news. I just wish the father of baby would say "My wife and I are expecting in baby." I think it diminishes the womens' hard work of pregnancy and delivery when men announce that they are pregnant.
it makes me crazy when i ask the mothers in labor if she wants medication to help with the pain and the husbands answer NO she doesn't NEED anything for the pain! i usually ask them if they are in pain or is it the woman who's tearing and crying and thrashing crying "I can't take anymore". usually i say this with a disapproving look on my face with a barbie smile and sickeningly sweet voice. hence some complaints to my superiors that i'm mean to them (the men)
concerned RN
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the one that tops my career is: "oh you don't need to check me, my boyfriend checked me before we came and i'm at 3 cm now." you want to ask why did you come - do it yourself.