Thank you S/N
July 5, 2009
Warning. This is a sarcastic post. I have spend a couple of days at the delivery suite of my teaching hospital here and there are some interesting things that I have learned, thanks to the staff nurses.
- It is allright to be double standard. A doctor who was admitted for normal delivery shall receive better service than a non-doctor patient with similar problem. The sister should attend, explain the procedures, talk nicely, screen the suite all times, reheck her + vital signs every half and hour (plotted).
- The delivery suite hall be screened at all times for VIPS and one nurse shall attend her in the suite at all times. Non-Vip patients CANNOT be screened so that and I quote what S/N said ‘the nurses can watch the patient from far away’
- VIPS’s husbands can come in the delivery suite anytime of the day even the os is 4 or even closed but a non-vip patient requires os of 5 and above only then husband can come in regardless of patient’s request.
- We should counsel the patient that if they do not want pain, it is better not to get pregnant and just deal with the pain because it is a normal process thus patients do not require pain killers.
- Mothers cannot groan in pain. It is absurd. hush!!! shut-up!!
- The mother is deemed not to be cooperating if she takes a breath after a hard push. So to cooperate, mothers should not take a breath after a long pushing.
- Fundal pressure is useful if the mother is exhausted. It is important to deliver the baby regardless if it’s dying.
There are more, I can’t recall…I will add if there is some more.
The thing is I am not disrespecting the staff nurses out of no reason, I thank them for all the teaching and guidance they are great first liners in the management of mothers in labour however certain human rights and ethical part of them is just absent or maybe taken for granted and that I have no power or authority to give some constructive critisims to them. They will view it as an act of disrespect.
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