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Our
Philosophy of Care
The
nursing staff at the Women's Birthing Center is committed
to providing family-centered care. This is the delivery
of safe, satisfying quality health care that focuses
on and adapts to the physical and psychosocial needs
of the family. It
is a cooperative effort of families and other caregivers
which recognizes the strength and integrity of the family.
To
support our Birth Center Mission, the perinatal team
provides  families
with safe, satisfying, family-centered health care within
the childbearing continuum. We are guided by the values
of respect, compassion, integrity, efficiency, and excellence.
The Birthing Center utilizes a primary nursing delivery
system. The Women's Hospital Birth Center consists of
25 labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum rooms, seven antepartum/
postpartum beds, three operating rooms, recovery rooms
and three triage rooms.
Our
Patients and Families
Our
mother patient population consists of women of childbearing
age. Our patients' relevant life experiences are varied.
Our mothers' health states can range from obstetrically,
medically, or surgically high- or low-risk antepartum
women and/or postpartum (delivery to six weeks postpartum);
some women experiencing grieving process related to
childbirth experience; and some women experiencing infertility.
Our socio-cultural orientation is multiethnic and multicultural.
Infant health states are also varied and dependent on
the type of birth, complicated or uncomplicated, medical,
surgical, or obstetrical complications and/or procedures
of the mother of the newborn.
The
prevalent medical diagnoses for our mothers are: normal
labor; normal spontaneous vaginal delivery; forceps/vacuum
vaginal birth; cesarean birth; postpartum tubal ligation;
reproductive endocrine disorders; bleeding disorders;
hypertensive disorders; endocrine disorders; premature
onset of labor; premature/prolonged rupture of membranes;
and abortion, spontaneous, threatened, or missed therapeutic.
Our
Nursing Team
Patient
assignments are made to facilitate continuity of care.
A partnership of nurses/assistive personnel is assigned
to a specific group of patients, including antepartum,
intrapartum, and postpartum patients within three clusters
on Women's West and one cluster on Women's East. The
four clusters are supported by one charge nurse and
one triage nurse. Services provided include: monitoring;
assessment; data interpretation; care planning; therapeutic
interventions; emotional support for families; family
education; and evaluation of nursing interventions.
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