Hi sue and Sharon, you are right this is
sad. Any woman who has a problem that needs to be monitored shouldn't need
a protocol to tell the midwife they should be in the room with their
lady. In fact every midwife should stay with their lady whether they need
monitoring or not. (And the research of the benefits of
continuous monitoring VS. intermittent monitoring with a continuous known carer
should also be thought about). Any chance you could name the
big hospitals you work at so that we can make our clinical assessments on
your experiences.
Lisa
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] EFM on
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sue that is sad, i also work at a large hospital
in adelaide and this certainly never happens as it is hospital protocol that
all women who are on ctg have a midwife with them, i hope your expereinces
elsewhere are better than that particular one.
regards
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Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 10:19
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] EFM on
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Hi, I was a student at a large Adelaide hospital and last
year I witnessed most of the midwives staying at the front desk for most
of the time watching 'their' women's CTGs. I found it appalling - that we
as students were observing this as modern midwifery management; that the
women were treated with such lack of compassion and skill; that this was a
large teaching hospital - no wonder most of the young doctors have no idea
about normal birth. Needless to say I complained to appropriate sources
and have refused to revisit that hospital for a clinical
placement.
Let me get a sore back and dirty knees any day and maybe
I'd also have some idea of the woman I was assisting through birth and some
idea of how I could help her achieve what she wanted.
Sue
the efm on satellite systems does not
subsitute for the registered midwife in the rooms. We have this at the
hosp that i work in and you still have to stay in the room with the
woman whilst she is labouring. Not all clients are on moniters and
some are intermittenly monitored with a doppler hand held. I find this
appaling that the midwives can even think of not bieng in the room with
the woman and her partner during labour. They are used as a sort of backup
so the shift co-ordinator can see what is happening in the room and also
for the medical officer who is always in the labour ward to glance at
sometimes as the individual midwife in the room's ability may be on
different levels it is like a saftey system i guess for both the woman and
the midwife attending her.
regards
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Friday, April 28, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject:
[ozmidwifery] EFM on satellite systems
I was at a birth the last
few days @ RWH and the midwives were telling me hospitals (RWH included)
are soon changing to new EFM machines which are linked to a satellite
system, so women can be monitored by the midwives from the ward desk.
They were joking about it too, how they could have a loudspeaker go off
and ask them to adjust the monitor next, should it not be in the right
spot. Does anyone know anything more about this and what are your
thoughts? One to one midwifery care seems further off sometimes, which
is very, very sadÂ…
Best
Regards,
Kelly
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