Comments on: “I Don’t Want To Scare You But…” http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/ Wed, 23 May 2012 19:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sarah http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-4053 Sarah Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:06:38 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-4053 This was said to me with my first. It was so irritating and I did use it as motivation to prove her wrong. No one has said that to me after that birth. I have had two children since. I would have replied sooner but my computer had to be sent in to be fixed. This was said to me with my first. It was so irritating and I did use it as motivation to prove her wrong. No one has said that to me after that birth. I have had two children since.

I would have replied sooner but my computer had to be sent in to be fixed.

]]> By: Knitted in the Womb http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-4012 Knitted in the Womb Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:12:34 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-4012 REALLY? Phlebotomists use tiny needles? It seems to me that IV needles are much smaller than the needle that is used when I donate blood. REALLY? Phlebotomists use tiny needles?

It seems to me that IV needles are much smaller than the needle that is used when I donate blood.

]]> By: Melissa http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3991 Melissa Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:50:40 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3991 and i'm finished derailing the thread. and i’m finished derailing the thread.

]]> By: Meliss http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3990 Meliss Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:49:52 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3990 To be fair, starting IVs is a skill that requires a lot of practice, something EMTs have because they regularly have to get lines in people who have lost a lot of blood or are in some other type of shock (which decreases peripheral circulation). Student nurses don't have much opportunity to practice (though I'm not saying anybody has a responsibility to let them practice on them...) Finding veins can also be a lot more about luck than skill some days. It's just not that simple. That student was a jerk though, and so was whoever was in charge of him. Whoever was supervising that student should not have allowed him to poke somebody who lost a lot of blood and was going through such a traumatic experience, and he should have known his own limitations and stopped. What happened to you is unjustified and unethical. And seriously, typing your blood in the bathroom? Hospitals are gross enough. Eww. To be fair, starting IVs is a skill that requires a lot of practice, something EMTs have because they regularly have to get lines in people who have lost a lot of blood or are in some other type of shock (which decreases peripheral circulation). Student nurses don’t have much opportunity to practice (though I’m not saying anybody has a responsibility to let them practice on them…)

Finding veins can also be a lot more about luck than skill some days. It’s just not that simple.

That student was a jerk though, and so was whoever was in charge of him. Whoever was supervising that student should not have allowed him to poke somebody who lost a lot of blood and was going through such a traumatic experience, and he should have known his own limitations and stopped. What happened to you is unjustified and unethical.

And seriously, typing your blood in the bathroom? Hospitals are gross enough. Eww.

]]> By: Heather P http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3985 Heather P Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:36:56 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3985 When I had to transfer to the hospital via ambulance for a hemmorhaging miscarriage the EMT used a huge needle and had no problem getting it in. When I got to the hospital a student nurse turned my other arm into a pincusion using a tiny needle. My veins are not hard to find in the slightest. My whole arm was black and blue from his bungling. Oh, and my hubby caught him typing my blood at the sink in the men's room. (Yeah, hospitals are more sanitary) When I had to transfer to the hospital via ambulance for a hemmorhaging miscarriage the EMT used a huge needle and had no problem getting it in.

When I got to the hospital a student nurse turned my other arm into a pincusion using a tiny needle. My veins are not hard to find in the slightest. My whole arm was black and blue from his bungling. Oh, and my hubby caught him typing my blood at the sink in the men’s room. (Yeah, hospitals are more sanitary)

]]> By: erin http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3956 erin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:13:06 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3956 Yes, but I still think it's reasonable to expect nurses to be able to place an IV, even in an emergency. We expect it of EMTs and they only make half as much. Yes, but I still think it’s reasonable to expect nurses to be able to place an IV, even in an emergency. We expect it of EMTs and they only make half as much.

]]> By: erin http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3955 erin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:06:10 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3955 Maybe her last 2 moms delivered vaginally and she was just going with the odds. Maybe her last 2 moms delivered vaginally and she was just going with the odds.

]]> By: erin http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3954 erin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:02:34 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3954 <blockquote cite="comment-3910"> <strong><a href="#comment-3910" rel="nofollow">Moshermama</a></strong>: OMG, this SO reminds me of the nurse who was with me all day. She was FREAKING OUT because I didn’t want an IV, and kept saying, “Oh, what if there’s an emergency and I can’t find your veins?” </blockquote> "Then you aren't qualified to be a nurse. Please find me somebody who is." I hear this one a lot. If finding a vein in an emergency is so incredibly difficult, then EMTs are severely underpaid.

Moshermama: OMG, this SO reminds me of the nurse who was with me all day. She was FREAKING OUT because I didn’t want an IV, and kept saying, “Oh, what if there’s an emergency and I can’t find your veins?”

“Then you aren’t qualified to be a nurse. Please find me somebody who is.”

I hear this one a lot. If finding a vein in an emergency is so incredibly difficult, then EMTs are severely underpaid.

]]> By: Moshermama http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3941 Moshermama Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:25:09 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3941 No kidding. What was really sad was that when I finally consented to a heplock she said, "well that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be." Ugh. Fortunately, the nurse that relieved her was 100000 times better. No kidding. What was really sad was that when I finally consented to a heplock she said, “well that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.” Ugh. Fortunately, the nurse that relieved her was 100000 times better.

]]> By: Genet http://myobsaidwhat.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-want-to-scare-you-but/comment-page-1/#comment-3940 Genet Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:22:37 +0000 http://myobsaidwhat.com/?p=1062#comment-3940 Dunno, going too fast to get to a hospital sounds like a good reason to stay home to me! ;) Dunno, going too fast to get to a hospital sounds like a good reason to stay home to me! ;)

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