ALMOST PASSED OUT

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Not sure if this should go under "student" forum, but I wanted to get some feedback from seasoned nurses. I'm a CNA and on my last pre-req for nursing school. In my class today, our professor showed a video of a reverse vasectomy. I don't know what came over me, but I knew I was going to faint. I was afraid to stand up, but afraid to sit there and faint in front of the class. I did manage to leave (thankfully I was right next to the door), and did the head down/ fresh air thing. I was o.k. after a few minutes. I was then able to sit thru a tubal ligation video with no problem whatsoever. This really worried me, that I became faint. Being a CNA, I can handle the usual (unpleasantries) with no problem. I've wanted to be a nurse for as long as I can remember. Can anyone share a similar situation? I came home feeling pretty upset -- has anyone else overcome/dealt with queasy, faint feelings? Thanks.

Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

They jokingly called me the phoenix in nursing school. There were quite a few occasions when i would forget to eat, blood sugar would crash and i would be revived with juice or whatever then i'd be fine. Almost always met with a tongue in cheek "the phoenix has risen". :stone

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A friend of mine watched a newborn circ with me and passed out right after telling me "that wasn't so bad". She went on to observe two c-sections that day.

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Specializes in CVICU.

My girlfriend is in school to be a radiology technician. She was helping get x-rays during a trauma the other day, and she took a look at a particularly nasty laceration on a man's face, passed out, hit her head, and she had to get a head CT!

Back in the days when I was a "Medical Explorer," I was watching a nurse attempt to put a Foley in some poor old man with BPH. She couldn't get it in, and just kept ramming it. It made me break out in a cold sweat, and if I wouldn't have left, I would have passed out. I've seen this procedure (and done it myself) several times since then, and I've never had that reaction again.

I think just about everyone has some story like this, so relax :)

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
Same here with all the surgeries... give me blood and guts and I can handle it..but I CAN NOT do lumbar punctures!

lol, same here with the major surgical procedures, but I can't stand TOE NAIL sugery, as when the great toe's nail is removed.... AWG!!!!!!!!!!!!:redpinkhe

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