Nurses Rant

PLEASE NOTE: This is IN NO WAY meant to be mean or disrespectful, but just mine and my husbands experience with one hospital and a few certain nurses.

During the past two weeks with my three beautiful little girls in the NICU, I have had many up and down moments, and some nurses have contributed to my meltdowns. I know everyone does things differently and that is ok, but certain comments....well let's just say by the time my girls get to come home, the NICU will probably need to give me a book to write down my comments and issues with certain nurses.

Yes, I may be an over-protected new mother, but what do you expect?!

SO let me give you some examples of what I mean...

One time I was breastfeeding one of the girls and so I was behind the curtain and I guess the nurse forgot I was there, and she and another nurse were talking. Our nurse was saying how tired she was and how she only got five hours of sleep and the last thing she wanted to do was be at work....UMM, HELLO, THAT IS REALLY COMFORTING KNOWING THAT I WAS LEAVING AND SHE WAS GOING TO BE CARING FOR MY BABIES ALL NIGHT...

AND then we had this nurse....

To put it simply, she was THE WORST...so this is all in one day...

First, she asked me, "So, do you just sit here all day with them?" She had a look on her face that was of disgust. When I simply explained that I am a new mom and have waited a long time for these babies and the thought of just laying around at home while they are here without me just wouldn't do, so why wouldn't I want to be here with them. I cry if I'm at home, I cry if I'm with them, they are my flesh and blood!!! I swear had to bit my tongue. Stupid b****!

 

Then, she kept saying, "Oh I am so tired, I can't believe I have to do this all over again tomorrow," "Oh, I'm going to get another cup of coffee." Thanks, I so want my children IN YOUR CARE!

 

Later in the day, I was holding Claire for her tube feeding time and I'm sitting there and sitting there and I knew her tube wasn't on and so I was hesitant to say something but finally I said, "I don't think her tube is on and it's 5:45," and she says, "oh it's on"..and gets up to walk over, as I am saying, "nope, I don't think so," and she gets over to it and says, "oh I must have forgotten!" Yeah, no kidding! Gee, glad I was here to remind you to FEED MY CHILD!

AND THEN.....she would start the girls feedings way too early, which would piss me off, because of so many things. 1) Each of the girls eat at certain times, so say it's the 5pm feed, Madelynn is 5-530, Claire is 530-6 and Natalee is 6-630. But she would change them, see how much residual is in the,m and start feeding them early (like 20 minutes). So, they would have a lot more residual in their tummies because she was doing everything too early and they were still digesting. 2) On Sunday, I said, "I WILL BE BACK BY 2PM to change Madelynn's diaper and take her temp and feed her, please don't start without me!" What happened, I walked in at 2:05pm and Claire was already almost done with her feeding...I was livid!!!! AND to make matters SO MUCH worse....one of the nurses who took over for the stupid nurse said when I questioned why Claire was almost done at it was 2:05pm and that I specifically said I would be here and why she was doing everything so early....???? So the nurse says, "yeah and I don't know why she was feeding Claire through the isolate, we normally don't do that"....SAY WHATTTTTT???? You mean she wasn't even holding my daughter to feed her, she was just lifting her head to give it to her through the isolate. To say the least, I FREAKIN LOST IT!!!!!!!!!! I was so upset I had to sit down, my blood pressure was so high!! All I could think about was how I wanted to kick her butt, how dare her not take care of my daughter the way she should. They need human touch, human interaction, they are not sick, no fever, there is NO REASON why she or any other nurse shouldn't be holding them at EVERY SINGLE FEED!!! Ugh, it makes my heart cringe just thinking about my poor babies in her care. I hated that woman!

We have had some wonderful nurses too though. Some of our favorites are Belle, Mary, Barbara, Norma, Anne, Kathy, Jennifer, Emily and Pat! Most of the nurses are nice but there are just some that go above and beyond and make you feel so at ease and secure. It just makes me feel so good when I have to leave, as hard as it is, but to know that they are in good care with someone that will treat them like their own children. I can't put into words how much it helps. If I can't be there at every moment, I at least want to feel comfort in my mind that they are being well taken care of.

We still have a few weeks to go, at least for our string bean, Natalee, so I am sure there will be more issues, but I just had to vent about this specific nurse.