""If you or someone you love is going to give birth in a hospital, there is a question you need to ask before you go that can determine whether you are likely to have safe care or not," said labor and delivery nurse Jen Hamilton. Her multi-part TikTok videos amassed a combined 300,000 views their first 24 hours. "You need to know whether the hospital you are going to give birth in follows AWHONN's safe staffing standards," she continued."
""Your nurse should be caring for no more than two patients ever. And that should be on a bad day." AWHONN is the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. They publish an extensive 95-page heavily-researched document detailing their recommended standards for care."
""I'm very fortunate to work on a unit where we have really good staffing most of the time," Hamilton, a mom of two and author of the upcoming " Birth Vibes, " tells TODAY.com. "But I hear these stories from other nurses who work in places where unsafe staffing is the norm.""
The number of U.S. women who died in the year following pregnancy more than doubled between 1999 and 2019. Labor and delivery nurse Jen Hamilton urges asking whether a hospital follows AWHONN safe staffing standards before giving birth. AWHONN generally recommends one nurse per patient in active labor and advises that nurses should not care for more than two patients even on a bad day. AWHONN publishes a 95-page, heavily researched document outlining recommended standards. Numerous studies validate links between inadequate staffing and inpatient mortality and adverse events, and unsafe staffing is cited as a contributor to high maternal mortality.
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