text: do you have rights to not have a social worker come to your room as a patient in ca.? because i am having a baby and i was in the hospital before during my pregnancy and one came, disturbing me asking me all kinds of questions, what for i don't know. but i felt like i was being violated of my human rights. can anyone answer that has sources. you were being assessed by a public health nurse.  they did this to me when i was 25, married, & we had no insurance, yet we planned to pay the hospital bill ourselves (& did)!  they explained to me that they just wanted to "make sure" that i had the necessary skills to care for my baby.  they even went so far as to show up at our home & when i refused to let them in, they threatened to take our baby away from us!  this happened in 1979 & we referred to it as the local "witch hunt", because the county where we lived was taking children away at an alarming rate for the strangest things, like breast feeding & allowing your baby to sleep in the parents bed!  you have a right to refuse any & all questions until you have a representative in the room with you (anyone will qualify).  talk to your doctor & have them make a notation on your chart that you are not to be bothered when you are actually in the hospital.  many times, they do this to make sure you are the same person, if there is an identity problem or question once your baby is born & someone tries to remove it from the premises.  they are definately a wierd bunch & the questions they ask should be done in a different manner with a lot more info for the parent/s.  always ask everyone who has contact with you for their photo id & it is a good idea to jot their name down in a notebook with the date, time, place,& general description of that person in case anything does happen to your baby & the authorities can track down people who may be there to commit a crime.  there are a lot of predators in hospitals who pose as staff members & go un-noticed due to the high volume of people & traffic in the hospitals.  you should talk to the head nurse about this .