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My head is just spinning from this one.
The area where I live got slammed with some pretty intense thunderstorms this evening. Several tornadoes touched down in my area, one only a few miles from the hospital where I was having my OB clinic with my students.
We were at dinner when the hospital called a "Dr. T", which is the hospital's code for a tornado warning. We immediately went back to the floor to help the staff, since there were only two nurses and a CNA on duty tonight. On the way, we ran into the house supervisor, who I used to work with when I worked in the ED there. He told me a tornado had touched down in the NW part of town. He wanted all the units to close blinds in the rooms, and keep patients away from windows, though we didn't have to actually move patients into the hallway . . . yet.
The Nursery staff came out and took all the babies back to the nursery during the emergency, since it is a well shielded part of the hospital. My students and I closed all window blinds on the unit, closed the doors to empty patient rooms, and told patients and visitors to stay away from windows, and be prepared to move into the hallway if necessary.
In spite of this, the Nursery got a spate of calls from parents wanting the babies returned to the rooms. It wasn't that the parents were worried. In fact they weren't; they just wanted the baby because they wanted the baby (wanting the baby BECAUSE it was an emergency is understandable--but no one said that). They just acted like there was nothing at all going on.
people. We just took your newborn to the safest place in the whole damn hospital, and you're complaining because you want to play with the baby? Are you even thinking?
Then there were the visitors who were complaining because hospital security wouldn't let them leave the building. Again, people,! You're safer where you are!
This only a few days after tornadoes ripped through this same state and killed 24 people. I don't get people some times.
The area where I live got slammed with some pretty intense thunderstorms this evening. Several tornadoes touched down in my area, one only a few miles from the hospital where I was having my OB clinic with my students.
We were at dinner when the hospital called a "Dr. T", which is the hospital's code for a tornado warning. We immediately went back to the floor to help the staff, since there were only two nurses and a CNA on duty tonight. On the way, we ran into the house supervisor, who I used to work with when I worked in the ED there. He told me a tornado had touched down in the NW part of town. He wanted all the units to close blinds in the rooms, and keep patients away from windows, though we didn't have to actually move patients into the hallway . . . yet.
The Nursery staff came out and took all the babies back to the nursery during the emergency, since it is a well shielded part of the hospital. My students and I closed all window blinds on the unit, closed the doors to empty patient rooms, and told patients and visitors to stay away from windows, and be prepared to move into the hallway if necessary.
In spite of this, the Nursery got a spate of calls from parents wanting the babies returned to the rooms. It wasn't that the parents were worried. In fact they weren't; they just wanted the baby because they wanted the baby (wanting the baby BECAUSE it was an emergency is understandable--but no one said that). They just acted like there was nothing at all going on.
people. We just took your newborn to the safest place in the whole damn hospital, and you're complaining because you want to play with the baby? Are you even thinking?Then there were the visitors who were complaining because hospital security wouldn't let them leave the building. Again, people,
! You're safer where you are! This only a few days after tornadoes ripped through this same state and killed 24 people. I don't get people some times.
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