Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
Dec
15
Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
Thoughtful Thursday! “…My Patient Is Unhappy & I Am Going To Make Her Happy Before You Continue…”
“You can wait, my patient is unhappy and I am going to make her happy before you continue. She comes first, if she is stressed, the baby could be stressed. You will wait.” – L&D nurse asking the Anesthesiologist to wait, when the mother became concerned that she could no longer hear the baby’s heartbeat and the nurse needed time to reposition the monitor.
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Oregonmommy had this to say,
Dec 15, 2011 @ 3:25 pm (Quote)
WOW! WTG! SO awesome to hear this. I LOVE Thursday’s!
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This was my nurse. I got to spend all 3 days of my hospital stay with her. She was amazing. She was worried about me and Jercey (my now 6 month old baby girl) because I had 2 panic attacks before getting the epidural. If I have my next baby in the same hospital, I hope she is my nurse again
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I love this. How long does it take to reposition a monitor? Sixty seconds? How long does it take to place an epidural? Fifteen minutes?
Unless the anesthesiologist was needed in the OR **rightthissecond** why couldn’t s/he wait for the nurse to reposition the monitor? Probably by the time she was done saying this, the heartbeat would have been back on the screen. 
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atyourcervix had this to say,
Dec 16, 2011 @ 9:21 am (Quote)
Some, not all, anesthesiologists are not patient. This nurse had steel balls to say all of that to him/her! AWESOME!
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It rakes some serious balls/ovaries to stand up to an impatient physician. Way to go, Nurse!
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