Ever gotten hurt....

[daazy28]

:imbar i have to ask. has anyone else ever gotten injured in nursing school?? i was doing a nite in the ed/ quick care for clinical. i had worked all day, went straight to clinical and hadn't yet gotten break for dinner. so, my measly snack of rice cakes with p. butter on top and gatorade, apparently was not enough to hold me over. i was watching the pa stitch up a finger. (it wasn't even that bad!!) and down i go! whammo!!! right to the ground! (the patient said i hit like a ton of bricks!! lol) i woke up to the pa over me with the ammonia stick! (u can bet i'll keep those in my pockets...lol) so for the next 2 hours, i was the patient! (at least i got the hours for clinical credit too! i was learning from the nurses the whole time!! lol) over in the other side of the er though. all the monitoring, blood sugar, etc... (everything was fine btw. never did figure out what was wrong.) i was released to my husband who drove down from work and picked me up.

so i was just curious. am i the only one? will this make my career awful???? or awfully hard??? i don't plan to work er. i have found that psych is my nitch () , although my heart is in neonate and nicu or l&d. :redpinkhe

[lvnandmomx3]

I was never injured during school, but did come close to passing out. There were 6 students the would care nurse and 2 patients in a room with no air conditioning, pt was contact isolation so we all had to glove gown and mask. the room was just to hot and I had all the PPE on. I felt nausiated and looked quik to a friend that grabbed hold of me and brought me into the hall to sit in a chair. Everyone teased me saying I couldn't handle the stage 4 decub but seriously it was not that it was the heat. You will do fine. Just make sure to eat you really need it esp if you are working 8 hr then trying to do 8 hr clinicals. This may be one of the reasons school would preffer that the students do not work before school. Some even make it part of the policy....

GOOD LCUK you can do it.

[RheatherN, ASN, RN, EMT-P]

you just had an off day. most everyone has gone thru that. i think you really have to carry an ammonia stick..lol...you may think you had enuf food to tide you over...but you may have been wrong..

at least you got clin credit!! lololol

-H-RN

[Hands and Heart]

One of my classmates became ataxic walking down the stairs on her way to lunch with 2 other classmates,hit her head a required stitches. She turned out to be fine as well. This happened to her during our OB rotation. Might have gone goo goo for ga ga.

[TopazLover, BSN, RN]

When I was a student (seems like 100 years ago) my instructor told us she had passed out in the OR. She said that she kept her hands up on the way down to keep them sterile. - lol

She was the greatest. Don't let this one incident hold you back.

I almost passed out once when a surg. was doing a cutdown. I had sprained my ankle badly and the pain and the situation came together. He noticed I was pasty white. That got me to sit for a second and take some deep breaths. It passed. I could not believe a simple thing like that would knock me out of play. I have been involved with lots worse things before and since. Just take better care of yourself.