Just wow. Nurses gone haywire. Dad has every right to take his child out of the hospital. The hospital does not have ownership. We once had a resident physician tell us we could not take our child out of the hospital after 24 hours. We were trying to save ourselves and the hospital $$$$. Hubby was ready to do some violence to someone though I don’t suspect a nurse would have been on the receiving end. Another pediatrician stepped in and said, “I’ll sign for these parents so they can leave with their child.” Some folks are control freaks and just want to assert their Power. We had this happen again with another son. Our pediatrician had cleared us to leave at our earliest convenience. She hates hospitals and wanted us out of there for our own good. The nurses “lost” our pediatrician’s paperwork and said they needed to have her fill it out again. Well, let’s just say they did not like messin’ with her. Then they flubbed a hearing test so that we had to come back a week later and caused us all sorts of stress over it. This was all because the nonAmerican nurse(s) were incompetent. And maybe they wanted paying customers to fill their rooms as opposed to the unpaying. I’m not sure.
“This was all because the nonAmerican nurse(s) were incompetent.”
They used to import nurses from the Phillipines because they could hire them cheaper. Now they hire them from India because they speak better English than the previous imports.
you really must be joking.
IF you wanted your baby discharged within 24 hours they are more than happy to do so as long as the baby is fine and the nursery has their discharge order.
as for that misplaced order ? you call your doctor and have her FX it and while you’re waiting get the nursing supervisor and administrator.
control freaks ? LOL.
Ann Margaret Lane and Cari Maleman Luciano sound like fairly American names to me.
That hospital is in my old home town. I actually worked there after school. While the demographics have changed in the past 40 years, at the time it was 99% white. Last I heard most of the nurses were local, not imported from the 3rd World. The area around there is relatively prosperous, basically upscale NYC suburbs, so I don’t think they have a problem just trying to fill beds with paying patients. There is more to this story.
It doesn’t make sense that a father would take his 2 year child out of the nursery in January without his being prepared, i.e., properly bundled, to go outside. And where was the mother? Was he leaving her in the hospital, or was she already home? Today you see mother/child being released in 2 days, but released together unless there is a problem. Maybe the child had some minor condition, so was being held an extra day or two rather than released with a condition that would require his immediate return.
I'm with you.
God bless the doctor for allowing us to leave with our baby the following morning, born at 7:30PM the previous evening, even though he had young ones waiting at home one precious Christmas morning over two decades ago.
The ladies' auxiliary had made HUGE red stockings for us to carry our little "gifts" home!