Four labor and delivery nurses have exited their posts after making a ‘disrespectful’ TikTok video in which they detailed their ‘icks’ about expectant mothers.
The nurses filmed themselves mocking patients and their families for basic requests like water and blankets and complaining about being in pain but refusing epidurals during labor.
Emory healthcare – a hospital system in Atlanta, Georgia – has condemned the video as ‘unprofessional’ and ‘disrespectful’, which the staff filmed on the ward and in full uniform.
Viewers expressed concerns with the nurses flippant attitude towards patients, with many citing Georgia’s poor maternal mortality record, ranking as the worst state in the nation to give birth in.
The system suggested in an Instagram post that the nurses were now ‘former’ employees who had been disciplined appropriately after the video made rounds on social media.
In the video, posted to one of then nurse’s TikTok account, the group went over their ‘icks’ with patients in the maternity ward. These included patients asking to shower and eat, asking for their baby’s weight or not wanting pain killing medications
It is not clear if the nurses were fired or left of their own accord.
The TikTok trend, which started at least two years ago, sees users reveal their ‘icks’ —things others do which instantly turns them off.
The trend started with women picking out things their romantic partners do, and has recently revived on the site with couples and pairs of friends reading out lists of icks to each other and reacting on camera.
The Atlanta nurses’ hospital-themed twist appears to have been taken down by original poster, TikTok user @hanhinton, but the video is still circulating on social media.
It was posted last week with the caption: ‘Some days ya gotta laugh #bedsidenursing’.
The 52-second clip showed one nurse saying: ‘My ick is when you come in for your induction, talking about “Can I take a shower and eat?”‘
Another said: ‘My ick is when you ask me how much the baby weighs and it’s still… in your hands.’
In 2021, Georgia was ranked as having the second-worst maternal mortality rate in the US — 48.4 per 100,000 live births
The camera then cut to another nurse who said: ‘Saying you don’t want any pain medicine, no epidural, but you are at an eight out of ten pain just [on] Sevredol and you’re still closed… [to] fingertip.’
Sevredol is an opioid and a brand name for morphine, used as a painkiller to treat persistent pain.
One medicines website said Sevredol tablets are not recommended during pregnancy and labor, as regular use in can cause drug dependence in the fetus.
‘Fingertip’ is method used to check how dilated a woman is during labor.
If a woman is a ‘fingertip’ dilated, it means a nurse can only fit one of their fingertips into the cervix and the woman is one centimeter dilated.
Another nurse complained of persistent requests from family members on the maternity ward.
She said: ‘When we’ve already told you to push a call light, but every five minutes, your family member coming at the front desk… asking for something else.’
Another nurse can be seen in the video tapping on her shoulder, imitating a patient’s family member and saying: ‘Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, could I have some water?
‘Excuse me could I have a blanket?’
Emory Healthcare’s website includes sections titled ‘honoring your birthing preferences’ and says it provides ‘compassionate, experienced labor and delivery care’.
The final part of the video shows a nurse rolling her eyes and saying: ‘It’s the unlimited trips to the nurses’ station for me.’
In a statement posted on Instagram on Thursday, Emory Healthcare said had ‘taken appropriate actions’ with the ‘former employees’ who made the video.
It added that the video ‘falls far short’ of the care they expect staff to provide.
The TikTok also mocked men fathering multiple children at a time from different women, and men who are unsure if the child is theirs.
One nurse said in the video: ‘Dad comes outside and asks for a paternity test. Right outside the room door.’
Another nurse added: ‘Another ick… when you’re going room to room, between one baby momma and your other baby momma… ICK.’
The flagrant post will add to anxiety among expectant mothers about giving birth in Georgia, as last year the state had the second-highest maternal mortality rate in the US.
A study by the International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS published last year found that Georgia ranked as having the second-worst MMR in the US — 48.4 per 100,000 live births.
The state has barely improved from over a decade ago, when Amnesty International ranked Georgia as the state with the worst maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the US in 2010.
According to the World Health Organization, maternal mortality is the annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or made worse by pregnancy during pregnancy, childbirth or 42 days after pregnancy termination.
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