I HATE this!!!!

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I am so upset and don't know exactly what to do. I am four weeks into my CNA I class (required to start RN school, which I am scheduled for in August). Clinicals start in 2 more weeks and I am skeeved out! I don't like touching people and am absolutely disgusted at the idea of wahing people's hair, giving massages w/o gloves (who is doing this for me???), bathing them, and especially cleaning up thier poop (my teacher got mad at me for asking if I cold wear a mask while doing this). When I found out about removing fecal impactions, well that sent me over the edge. Class is also very boring! I just don't know if this is for me. Will it get better when I am an RN, or is this all it is? I am sorry and mean no disrespect to those of you who love it, but I just dread going to class every day. What is going on with me?

Some of these posts are way out of line. Maybe direct patient care nursing isn't for you. Has NO ONE here heard of research RNs? CLNC? Some people are being unnecessarily mean.

LTC facilities are hell on earth. There is nothing "dirtier" than geriatrics. Some people love it, and those are usually pretty incredible people. But i couldn't do it. i slept through the class, survived clinicals, and never took my boards. Never ever ever.

i don't want to be a nurse forever, i'm going to med school in a few years for the same reasons. Nursing is one of the most versatile, open careers out there, just because it's MOSTLY patient contact doesn't mean it's SOLELY patient contact. If you can suffer through clinicals, i'd bet you can make it work.

Even if you get in and decide you hate it, you can suck it up long enough to go get a bachelors' degree in some form of science, then you can stay in the lab as long as you want to :heartbeat

I honestly don't understand some of these responses.

We have a person who is newly training as a CNA, yet they are supposed to be instantly comfortable with body fluids/intimate personal cares???

I submit that some of us have had no problems from day 1. But, I would wager that most of us were not the picture of patient care when we were learning how to perform these cares. There is no magic number of times it takes for it to become second nature. We are all built differently. It doesn't mean we are somehow less worthy or patient-haters. It simply means it takes a bit longer for some to find their comfort zone.

Life is full of surprising twists and turns. Who knows? The OP may find in a month from now this is not as big a deal as they once thought. Maybe we'll gain a peer to help us in our understaffed, overworked positions!

Umm noo. You will stil have to do all of those things when your an RN. Honestly you may want to reconcider nursing schoool and nursing as a career especially if you are uncomfortable touching people. As an RN you will have to touch people in order to do some of the above as well as assessments. You will also need to administer medications and some of them will be rectal or lady partsl.

Sweetooth

*lol*

Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

i was squmish when i was a CNA many years ago before i went to LPN school .. but i went to LPN school and was so shy and i just kinda grew out of it .. after 21 years as a LPN i am now a GN waiting to take my boards... i still have things that bother me , like mucus and people who spit in a emesis basin or cup and show me it... ooh gag... i almost toss my cookies.. disgusting... you will get used to dealing with people and the more knowledgeyou have the better off you are .. you'll feel comfertable touching people and other things... it will be okay.. just realize some things just take time.. don't give up .. i was so prissy when i began nursing.. stories i could tell .. at least i have alot of laughs to look back on.... just remember nursing will make you strong .. change your life .. for the better... when i was in high school i would of never dreamed i would be a nurse..neither did my family .. good luck and let me know how you do... give it time

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