I am so excited about becoming a nurse. I've really enjoyed school so far, and I'm almost 100% sure that I want to be a nurse.
To me, being a nurse has so many advantages; the respect that comes with the career, the knowledge that you acquire, being in the medical field, helping people, etc....
The only thing that scares me about being a nurse is: seeing sick/dead babies, seeing dead people period :uhoh21: (I'm very afraid of dead bodies, why? I don't know), and I'm a little squimish when it comes to seeing horrific blood and guts.
Do these things scare anybody else out there, or am I unusual? I hope that I can get use to these things once I become a nurse.
I"m going to be finishing my CNA training when I am taking anatomy, so by this time we will have been working with cadavers so I hope it will prepare me a little for work in a nursing home, as I am sure I'll have to deal with PM patients.
student4ever (and other nurses) - If you're still out there, considering your last reply was 3 years ago, I apologize for my last comment. I probably took it completely out of context. Being someone who is strongly opposed to having opposite gender attendants (as far as exposed genitals are concerned) I have to admit that you nurses have an extremely difficult job. When first learning that female nurses do EVERYTHING concerning a male patients care I looked into the possibility of getting into nursing to help protect male patients of going through that. While researching I saw the list of duties that you nurses have to do on a daily basis plus frequent emergency cases and I have to admit I almost lost my lunch. There are so many things you all do that I could never do, I just don't have the stomach for it.
Although I will do anything possible in the future to have a male nurse help me with all my possible needs (while privates are exposed), I have a much stronger respect for all nurses and what they have to go through every day. I apologize for some things I've said in past comments, you really do deserve our respect. While I'm sure there are many bad nurses out there as in any other profession, I realize that the majority of you really care and I do consider you heroic for all you do. The thought of exposing my genitals to female nurses still gives me the shivers but you probably feel those same shivers upon seeing them but would normally be able to hide that from me. Apart from that I do appreciate the care and compassion that most nurses give to us guys as well as everyone else and I hope that requesting a male attendant (only when genitals are exposed) doesn't make you believe that everything else you do isn't welcomed or appreciated.
smellyacres, BSN, RN
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I"m going to be finishing my CNA training when I am taking anatomy, so by this time we will have been working with cadavers so I hope it will prepare me a little for work in a nursing home, as I am sure I'll have to deal with PM patients.