What do people in the maternity ward do all day?
Asked by If I Were A Boy...
In a small town of about 38,000 people only about 5 babies are born each day. What do all the doctors and nurses do each day? Do they get paid to sit and watch TV or what?

Best Answer:
Monitor patients, do charting, etc. Basically, the nurses are taking vitals, giving medications, other duties as assigned, etc. Usually, the OB-GYN (MD) also sees pregnant women, not just delivers babies, so they may also be seeing their other patients as well for routine exams on an outpatient basis. Does your hospital have an outpatient clinic? They may also be monitoring high risk clients, performing c-sections, ordering medications and treatments, and reacting based on feedback from the nursing staff (all MDs get those dreaded 3 am pages/calls when a patient 'goes bad' from time to time). So in other words, while there *may* be the odd time that the mat ward is dead silent and everyone is watching the boob tube, don't count on it! Remember, natural vaginal deliveries don't come on a schedule or rotation. You may have 10 babies all coming at the same time suddenly. And you never know what can happen with a patient. It is likely that your local mat ward (even in a small town) is MUCH busier than you'd think. So don't expect to one day work there and get paid to watch Celebrity Apprentice or The Hills. ;) There's always *something* to do in an acute care setting, although some things are more pressing than others.

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