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For the birth of my second child, I learned to manage hospital staff so that they would leave my wife and newborn alone unless there was an emergency. I proacti
by kchoudhu 8y ago
For the birth of my second child, I learned to manage hospital staff so that they would leave my wife and newborn alone unless there was an emergency. I proactively scheduled scans, vital checks for the next morning so that the patients could rest.
The experience was so much better than what my wife and first child had. I do not understand why hospitals cannot do this kind of considerate scheduling by default.
- shaunpersad 8y agoCan you elaborate on how you worked with the hospital staff to make this "considerate scheduling" possible? My initial feeling would be that the staff will do their jobs when it convenient for them to do it, regardless of when you would prefer them to do it. How did you manage to convince them to modify their scheduling?
- Scoundreller 8y agoProbably by asking, or skipping tests/interventions. Ultimately everything is patient’s choice. It may work okay (administering one patient’s daily meds last amongst the caseload of patients). Other times, by deferring the 6AM blood draw to 10AM could mean your providers don’t have a fresh picture of the patient’s condition during morning rounds.
- kchoudhu 8y agoI just asked! The head nurse on the floor knew that unless there was an emergency, we would like to rest between 9PM and 7AM. We would have preferred 8AM, but it was a teaching hospital and they needed to get rounds underway early in the morning. Talk to the nurses. They control everything on the floor, the doctors are just passing through.
- roel_v 8y agoNot OP, but the same way you get anything 'management' done - get to know people, make them like you, understand procedures and incentives of everything and everybody involved, trust but verify, always be proactive and ahead of everything and everybody.
- mcv 8y agoIf nothing else works, make it more convenient for them to work with the patient than against the patient: annoy the hell out of them if they don't.
- mcv 8y agoGood job. I was surprised how much I as a husband had to take charge on because the hospital had no idea what was really going on. You need to ask stuff from the nurses if your wife needs anything.
- scarejunba 8y agoIf you'd write a blog post and talk about all the tests you managed to have done right, I would be ever so grateful. Thank you for even mentioning this is possible.