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I'm in hospital with my 2 week old baby, she has an infection and is on hourly observations. We've been in for days and getting out for Christmas relies on good obs to allow them to reduce o2 input until she's weaned off it completely.
At 6am I looked at her chart and saw that no obs have been recorded since 7.30pm last night. So our named nurse overnight hasn't recorded any stats. I thought I hadn't seen her much, assumed she must have popped in when I've been sleeping, which is off and on according to when the baby does.
I went back to sleep, noticed her come in at 6:30am and do obs. Not liking confrontation, I didn't wake up properly to ask her about it. I've just woke up again and checked the chart. She's put the 6:30am stats in but also one other set of data, with no time on. So she's made it look like she did two obs in 12 hours. S till nowhere near a full night of hourly obs. Still not enough for the doctor to assess when ward round starts.
Should I say something to the day nurse when she comes around? Or should I bring it up with the doctor when s/he comes? Or just leave it and hope that 2 obs instead of 12 looks bad enough?
I know they were understaffed last night and I know how much stress nurses are under due to staffing issues so I don't know if I am being fair in grassing her up?