In a message dated 9/30/00 10:20:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Loni writes that she rec'd this statement from management:

<< "In the safety of protecting our patients, no newborns will be allowed to
 leave the maternity unit to go over to the breastfeeding center with their
 mothers, (even if accompanied by a nurse), to get lactation help."  (We do
 not have a LC on the unit during the day.)  Afterall, an intruder could come
 in and demand that I release the baby at gunpoint  >>

Well, I hope that you never have to send a baby to x-ray, the same thing
could happen there. Maybe they should never be sent home. Someone could
carjack them & take the baby  away. This reminds me of an old nurse that I
used to work with. If she didn't agree with how a mom or nurse was handling a
situation with a newborn, she would end up reasoning that "A" could lead to
"B" and that could cause "C" and then the baby could DIE!

Laura Hart
Winter Park, FL

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