June 2024
Sophia Y
Sieckenius
,
RN
ICU
Uvalde Memorial Hospital
Uvalde
,
TX
United States

 

 

 

The patient and the patient's family were very grateful that the patient could have her newborn with her. Sophie took an experience that could have been very isolating and scary to the most ideal situation considering the mother's decline.
Sophie was floated to post-partum to take patients due to 5+ couplets, two morning c-sections, and other patients in labor. Sophie is very proficient in post-partum care, newborn care, and is an asset to the mother baby unit when floated. On this day her ICU experience came into play as a post op c-section mother started to "crump." The labor nurse called Sophie to the bedside to take a manual BP and assess the declining mother. Sophie helped stabilize and calm the mother. About an hour later Sophie was eating her lunch and called out of lunch to help with the same PT declining. Sophie dropped her lunch and immediately went to the bedside. It was decided at this time that the patient would be taken to ICU. Sophie never did go back to eating her lunch until two hours later. Sophie educated the patient and the patient's family at the bedside about the procedures and new medication that would be started in the ICU. Once Sophie had the patient stabilized, she advocated for having the patient's newborn baby at bedside in ICU. The patient was cleared to pump and breastfeed by the doctor, and as a mother herself, Sophie advocated for the hospital to allow this first-time mother to have her newborn with her. This is a decision that had to be taken to the CNO and required the ICU to be locked and security posted at the bedside. The patient and the patient's family were very grateful that the patient could have her newborn with her. Sophie took an experience that could have been very isolating and scary to the most ideal situation considering the mother's decline. This also allowed the mother to spend more time with a lactation consultant to assist with breastfeeding.