I just found out that I'm pregnant (yay!) and debating whether I should choose my ob from where I work or choose another hospital. By the way I work in PP so I'm pretty familiar with the OB team.
Pros: I have awesome co-workers and know they would take excellent care of me
Cons: My job is 45 minutes away and the OB I prefer has a really busy practice and I'm not sure if she would be able to truly dedicate a lot of time to me. Patients love her but complain about the wait for appts.
So my question is: What are reasons you would or would not have a baby at your place of employment.
I work PP. So, I would not prefer to be there as a pp patient, because I don't want my coworkers seeing my private, doing fundal checks, seeing my chart and stuff. I would be embarrassed when I was back at work, especially with the coworkers who took care of me. To be honest. This is true if I was a L&D nurse too.
I have many coworkers who deliver at our hospitals, and honestly when they are there as a PP patient, having them assigned to me is a fear of me. I pray on my way to work that they aren't one of my patients. lol. Because I don't want to see my coworker's vag and stuff. It may sound funny, but that's my sensitivity with the subject.
Now, if I was on any other unit, I wouldn't care about delivering where I worked.
I work in home health, so delivering a baby at my job would be a very bad idea. However, I would think twice about getting medical care at my job if I worked at a hospital. I really don't want my co-workers all up in my business.
Well, #1 I was high risk and my place of employment didn't have a NICU. So that was out. And my DD did end up in the NICU. #2 I worship the ground my OB walks on and drove over an hour to get to him, but he didn't deliver where I worked. The hospital I did deliver in was in my hospital system, however. 2 of my coworkers delivered there a week before.
otherwise I would hve loved too. Many of my coworkers did and had great experiences.
Ive had 2 surgeries at my place of employment. I got very special treatment. And embarrassment from the doctors who knew me and heard I was in same day in recovery:). All came to visit me.
I work in home health, so delivering a baby at my job would be a very bad idea. However, I would think twice about getting medical care at my job if I worked at a hospital. I really don't want my co-workers all up in my business.
Haha this must be a New England thing because I said the exact same thing on page #2.
No children yet; theoretically I would, but I don't work on that side of the world with the pink scrubs;)- if I did, I'm not sure (don't think I would have a choice, though, due to insurance). I think the thing that would bother me the most would be people I work with in my chart- there's stuff in there that I don't share with most people, and I know that I work with a bunch of gossips (despite HIPAA), so- yeah.
I would be willing to because I am not in the L&D unit, but we don't have a NICU so if something happened we would be split up. However, I would prefer to deliver at another hospital that's about equal distance from my house because their L&D is very nice. However, I'd be farther away from our nearest NICU.
However, I think the two midwives who deliver in my hospital system are at my place of employment. The other hospital system uses a lot of nurses though.
To each their own but I really feel like when you work on L&D or PP nobody thinks it's weird to see your baby makin'parts. You literally see it every dayp. so unless there's something extra or something missing it's not even on anybody's radar.
I wanted to deliver at my hospital because I know everyone. I called when my first few contractions hit to 'reserve' my labor nurse. I got more flexibility than the average patient too.
I do remember jokingly saying "at my last job none of my co-workers ever saw my lady parts"
I would, but I'm done with baby having days. I had my first child ages ago in a teaching hospital in July. Every med student saw my goodies, as there were seemingly half a million extra male docs milling around the halls nervously like flies that day. The nurse asked if I minded if the students observed. I think I saw four or five with all the different interns during that stay. By the time I had my fourth child, I'd have hosted a simulcast from my room....hahaha. Not really, but my thought was, what's one more person in the room? I have worked with some fantastic L&D nurses and would have been thrilled to have had them present at one of my births.
I did, but I work Oncology so I didn't know anyone on those floors. I do agree with the person who said they might feel weird and worried about HIPAA. I do have a condition I wouldn't want my coworkers to know/gossip about.
I was an L&D nurse and delivered where I work and loved it! My nurse friends definitely took care of me and gave me special treatment. As a PP nurse you should get special treatment too, so it will definitely work to your advantage. Unless you are super private, I'd say go for it!
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I work PP. So, I would not prefer to be there as a pp patient, because I don't want my coworkers seeing my private, doing fundal checks, seeing my chart and stuff. I would be embarrassed when I was back at work, especially with the coworkers who took care of me. To be honest. This is true if I was a L&D nurse too.
I have many coworkers who deliver at our hospitals, and honestly when they are there as a PP patient, having them assigned to me is a fear of me. I pray on my way to work that they aren't one of my patients. lol. Because I don't want to see my coworker's vag and stuff. It may sound funny, but that's my sensitivity with the subject.
Now, if I was on any other unit, I wouldn't care about delivering where I worked.