Hold up hope for tomorrow with both hands

It is a place full of joy and laughter, because of the birth of new life, hope will rise from here. From the moment the fetus delivers the mother's body, there is a pair of gentle and powerful hands that are always tightly cared for, and the owner of these hands is the nursing staff of the obstetrics department of The People's Hospital of Macheng City, Hubei Province.

The Obstetrics Department of Macheng People's Hospital is a big family, divided into three nursing units of obstetrics ward 1, obstetrics ward 2 and delivery center, with 37 nursing staff alone. It is not easy to manage this big family well, under the leadership of Li Juanxia, director of obstetrics, and Ma Yun, head nurse, the general nursing staff are united and united, and comprehensively and deeply carry out high-quality nursing services in accordance with the evaluation standards of tertiary general hospitals, and continuously improve the quality of nursing services.

Through the joint efforts of general medical staff, the department was rated as "Advanced Department of Social Satisfaction" by Macheng People's Hospital in February 2017, "Demonstration Post" by Macheng People's Hospital in March 2019, "Critical Maternal Care Center" by Macheng Health Bureau in December 2020, and "Demonstration Post" by Macheng People's Hospital in March 2021, and can successfully and successfully complete the "Obstetric Quality Inspection", "Baby-friendly Hospital Inspection" and " family planning inspection" and other work.

Greet life with love and protect life

Obstetrics is a high-risk department, the work is challenging, rescuing maternal bleeding, newborn suffocation, racing against the clock, which requires a high degree of responsibility, love and excellent professional skills of medical staff.

Obstetrics is also the most tired place, perhaps just empty delivery room, the door is crowded with anxious waiting family members, medical staff to take the mother into the delivery room, began to busy, listen to the fetal heart, oxygen, fetal heart monitoring, preparation of maternity kits, disinfection, midwifery, etc., until the mother gave birth, nurses became the mother's dependence. Although the work is very tiring, when you hear the first cry of a newborn child in the world, everyone will feel extremely relieved.

The picture shows the nursing staff of Macheng People's Hospital conducting psychological counseling for pregnant women (photo by Li Hua)

Extend the care service with care

Obstetrics is a special department, everyone knows that childbirth is only the beginning of a mother, how to recover the body, take care of the newborn baby, etc. are the challenges that pregnant women should face. Many women are often helpless and depressed because they cannot adapt to the role change. In order to better serve and help them, the obstetrics department has established a "pregnant women's school member" nurse QQ group under the guidance of the head nurse, which provides a communication platform for women, regularly answers various questions for women, carefully guides them to various problems encountered in the process of nursing babies, and gives them nursing knowledge, skills and psychological support. The opening of this QQ group is very popular with mothers, and the QQ group has 129 women, which is one of the more successful and participatory PATIENT QQ groups in the hospital.

In view of the common problems encountered by pregnant women after discharge, the obstetric nursing team explored and practiced a series of extended post-discharge nursing services, such as providing a 24-hour breastfeeding and postpartum nursing consultation hotline for post-discharge women through the establishment of discharge contact cards, the establishment of postpartum hotlines, the implementation of telephone follow-up, etc., and telephone return visits for pregnant women within one week of discharge, asking about postpartum recovery, targeted answers, improving the quality of postpartum care, and escorting the healthy growth of newborns.

Jin Hongmei, director and chief physician of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Macheng People's Hospital, Li Juanxia, director and chief physician of obstetrics, tang Xiaowei, deputy head nurse and nurse in charge of obstetrics, as invited guests to be guests in the live broadcast room of "Cloud Clinic", to the public to popularize pregnancy health care, painless childbirth and other related knowledge, answer the confusion of pregnant and infant parents, scientifically understand and correctly prevent common diseases during pregnancy, and actively spread positive health energy, which is well received by the majority of pregnant women and parents of infants and young children.

Cultivate the flower of care with a sense of responsibility

In order to ensure the safety of mothers and babies and improve the quality of obstetrics, every year the head nurse will take learning as an important starting point for enhancing their own quality according to the instructions of the hospital leaders and the nursing department. At the beginning of each year, a training plan is formulated, the director and the head nurse personally teach and assess, and also carry out the "reading day" activity, and organize the nursing staff to learn business knowledge every week in the evening, which truly achieves endless learning.

At the same time, the department continues to encourage nursing staff to actively participate in the analysis and discussion of difficult cases, create a strong learning atmosphere in the department, and carry out obstetrics-related special study classes for 5 consecutive years, which improves the level of obstetric diagnosis and treatment in the hospital. In recent years, nursing staff in the department have published more than 20 papers.

"Our technical level and operational ability are related to the safety of mothers and babies, holding two lives in one hand, we must continue to study, in order to make progress and improvement, painstaking management and watering, in order to give birth to a beautiful nursing career flower." These are the words that Ma often teaches nurses.

The Obstetrics Department of Macheng People's Hospital is a young, energetic, united and friendly nursing team, who cares for every mother and baby day after day and year after year, ushering in one new life after another. Convey love with sincerity and ignite hope with love. In the future nursing work, the hospital nursing team will take care of and care for every mother and baby with "love, patience, carefulness and responsibility" with a more enthusiastic and fuller mental state, more exquisite midwifery skills, and high-quality nursing services. (Reporter Yu Huiling Correspondent Li Hua Ma Yun)