NAMING CONVENTIONS:
During my 35 years in the health information management field, I filled out more than a few birth certificates and learned some very interesting names.
When I worked in Emmett, the only thing I had to provide was the Apgar score. That is assigned by the physician or RN or midwife and assesses the infants respirations, vision, hearing, movement etc. The usual values are 8 to 10.
When I moved to Barrow Alaska I plunged immediately into the whole thing, interviewing the parents, getting the names spelled correctly, getting grandma's Inupiaq name spelled correctly.
Occasionally there was to be a tribal adoption. A sister or an aunt or a friend would agree to adopt the baby. My job was to take the mothers information. The adoptive Mom was usually there and I would carefully explain that this document would reflect what the Mother wished the name to be but usually both parties had agreed to the name. There were a lot of adoptions. One of the girls in the medical record department gave away two of her babies to friends. Some of the really unusual names for instant one little boy is now named Ryan Bryan Cory Craig. Yep. There is a Captain Bill. There is a Sarah Junior.
The first birth certificates were paper and had to be PERFECT. It took me a long time to get to perfect and I sweat blood getting them perfect. It was an eon later that the State of Alaska announced electronic birth certificate!!! Yay! No more errors!! Phew!
After I moved to Coquille I discovered almost immediately that there was an electronic birth certificate program available with the state. The ladies present in the office did not want to fuss with it. Lemme at it!. That was a God's send. The program evolved into requiring finger print recognition. That was always tricky and sometimes it was cranky and we would have to call the trouble line to fix it.
We had a number of Mexican women deliver babies and I learned that the two last names go in the last name place and is not divided into a middle name and last name.
Unfortunately because of the rising malpractice rates many doctors stopped delivering babies until the last one gave up completely. The new hospital has a beautiful delivery suite with a walk in shower and a next door nursery. The room gets used as over flow for both inpatient and ER.
During my 35 years in the health information management field, I filled out more than a few birth certificates and learned some very interesting names.
When I worked in Emmett, the only thing I had to provide was the Apgar score. That is assigned by the physician or RN or midwife and assesses the infants respirations, vision, hearing, movement etc. The usual values are 8 to 10.
When I moved to Barrow Alaska I plunged immediately into the whole thing, interviewing the parents, getting the names spelled correctly, getting grandma's Inupiaq name spelled correctly.
Occasionally there was to be a tribal adoption. A sister or an aunt or a friend would agree to adopt the baby. My job was to take the mothers information. The adoptive Mom was usually there and I would carefully explain that this document would reflect what the Mother wished the name to be but usually both parties had agreed to the name. There were a lot of adoptions. One of the girls in the medical record department gave away two of her babies to friends. Some of the really unusual names for instant one little boy is now named Ryan Bryan Cory Craig. Yep. There is a Captain Bill. There is a Sarah Junior.
The first birth certificates were paper and had to be PERFECT. It took me a long time to get to perfect and I sweat blood getting them perfect. It was an eon later that the State of Alaska announced electronic birth certificate!!! Yay! No more errors!! Phew!
After I moved to Coquille I discovered almost immediately that there was an electronic birth certificate program available with the state. The ladies present in the office did not want to fuss with it. Lemme at it!. That was a God's send. The program evolved into requiring finger print recognition. That was always tricky and sometimes it was cranky and we would have to call the trouble line to fix it.
We had a number of Mexican women deliver babies and I learned that the two last names go in the last name place and is not divided into a middle name and last name.
Unfortunately because of the rising malpractice rates many doctors stopped delivering babies until the last one gave up completely. The new hospital has a beautiful delivery suite with a walk in shower and a next door nursery. The room gets used as over flow for both inpatient and ER.
1 comment:
I think you told of the birth certificate for a girl child, and the name ws input as "Female'" pronounced "femalie" Still think that was funny. Also i had a hospital client that did not delivery babies and had build a new hospital, which the Fed's required as part of their building requirements, had to have both a nursery and neonatal unit. The regular nursery was mostly a large empty room as mothers kept the babies in their room. Sometime rules make no sense... EJ
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