Thursday, June 29, 2006
Almost One Year
I cannot believe that we have been married almost a year!! July 2nd will be our First Anniversary! We are planning a trip to Mesa Verde National Park. We are staying at the park Saturday night and hiking/touring all day Sunday. Then we are heading to Durango and Silverton Sunday evening and Monday. Hopefully I will have some great pics to show and hopefully the month of July, I can post some of our wedding pictures. I hope everyone enjoys their time with family this weekend!!!
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Controversial
First, let me start with our guidelines at work. Our visiting guidelines state a person may have 3-4 people in the delivery room at a time and visiting hours are 11am to 8pm.
I know that you cannot set a time frame on when babies are born, so, we are VERY lenient on our visiting hours. We do request that people trade time in the delivery room if >4 people so that: 1.the patient has room to move, 2.if an emergency was to happen the staff would be able to move around quickly without having to ask a lot of people to move and 3.the patient can focus more with less people talking in the room(at least for most people). (We normally let as many can fit in the room AFTER the delivery and everything is o.k.).
Also we cannot allow people to wait in the hallways outside the rooms because:1.Other patients on the unit and confidentiality reasons, 2.Hospital policy, 3.Hallways become too crowded to either move other patients around or to get somewhere quickly(remember we have 2-3 lives in our hands at work and our main priority are them).
Tonight at work we had a patient that had 6-8 people waiting in the hallway outside the room. They were asked to wait either in the patient room or the visiting lounge by three different people(Yes, they were asked politely) About an hour later, I was moving a patient to another area and the same group was waiting outside the doors and I had to go through their group to take my patient to another room. In the process I requested that they wait down in the waiting room and reassured them that we would send someone down after the person they were waiting for delivered. Needless to say a couple of them had some snide comments to make(in front of this family I was moving - very inappropriate). After two more people asked them to move and twenty minutes later(still not moved), we called Security to come and talk to them(Remember, we have to keep our patients safety first). Needless to say the group was upset that they had to wait in the visitor lounge(the patient did not want anyone else in the room until they were delivered).
I guess I was frustrated because:1.My patient was embarrassed that she had to go through this group 2.They were asked multiple times to wait elsewhere and made snide comments 3.What if some emergency happened and they were in the way? and 4.If the patient did not want others in her room then either these people needed to respect our policy and her wishes or wait at home until they called after the deliver.
So, how could this have been handled better and any input(I may come back with more of the story after comments posted)
I know that you cannot set a time frame on when babies are born, so, we are VERY lenient on our visiting hours. We do request that people trade time in the delivery room if >4 people so that: 1.the patient has room to move, 2.if an emergency was to happen the staff would be able to move around quickly without having to ask a lot of people to move and 3.the patient can focus more with less people talking in the room(at least for most people). (We normally let as many can fit in the room AFTER the delivery and everything is o.k.).
Also we cannot allow people to wait in the hallways outside the rooms because:1.Other patients on the unit and confidentiality reasons, 2.Hospital policy, 3.Hallways become too crowded to either move other patients around or to get somewhere quickly(remember we have 2-3 lives in our hands at work and our main priority are them).
Tonight at work we had a patient that had 6-8 people waiting in the hallway outside the room. They were asked to wait either in the patient room or the visiting lounge by three different people(Yes, they were asked politely) About an hour later, I was moving a patient to another area and the same group was waiting outside the doors and I had to go through their group to take my patient to another room. In the process I requested that they wait down in the waiting room and reassured them that we would send someone down after the person they were waiting for delivered. Needless to say a couple of them had some snide comments to make(in front of this family I was moving - very inappropriate). After two more people asked them to move and twenty minutes later(still not moved), we called Security to come and talk to them(Remember, we have to keep our patients safety first). Needless to say the group was upset that they had to wait in the visitor lounge(the patient did not want anyone else in the room until they were delivered).
I guess I was frustrated because:1.My patient was embarrassed that she had to go through this group 2.They were asked multiple times to wait elsewhere and made snide comments 3.What if some emergency happened and they were in the way? and 4.If the patient did not want others in her room then either these people needed to respect our policy and her wishes or wait at home until they called after the deliver.
So, how could this have been handled better and any input(I may come back with more of the story after comments posted)
Black Canyon
Last weekend Josh & I were able to get out of town and away from work. We left early Saturday morning and hiked around the Black Canyon view points; had dinner and stayed the night in Montrose; then woke early on Sunday morning and went to Ouray for a couple of hours. It was a lot of fun and the best part was that we were able to spend time together in the beautiful places that God created. So, enjoy some of these beautiful pictures..............
My own
"wild buckwheat" and I surely do not see CEDAR POINT!!!
My own "wild buckwheat" and I surely do not see CEDAR POINT!!!
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