The Baby Who Wouldn't Wait: New Nurse Stories | First Shift

Podcast: NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students · Jon Haws, RN

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

"She was trying to place a catheter. She almost delivered a baby instead." A new L&D nurse, still orienting. Her preceptor steps out for lunch — and in that window, a routine in-and-out cath turns into the wildest twenty minutes of her new career: she can't visualize the urethra ("felt like I was hitting baby head"), her preceptor finally gets the cath in and urine flowing, and then the patient says, "I think I feel something coming out." An entire baby head. The call button, the yelling for doctors — too late. Eight pounds, eight ounces, slide...