I have this wierd problem which is in my into going to nursing school. Since I was a kid, I was really frightened of needles and ultimateley got terrified of hospitals (especially the rooms where they do the stitches and give injections). But that was a long time ago and now I am a grownup. I have no fear of needles and I can withstand 3000+ injections at atime. But the problem is this, I just tend to turn dizzy even when I visit a patient in the hospital.I get light headed when I go and see the nurses giving injections and doing other procedures. I love medical sciecne and I want to start out by being a nurse ...but this is becoming a big problem. I dont find anything gross but I just get dizzy for no reason. I think that I am subconsciously feeling the pain the patient may feel when he is have a needle stuck into him...but I dont know. I dont want to change majors...I love medical science and I want to get over this problem.
I have a weak stomach for hospital period. I just feel they smell funny :chuckle and it makes my stomach uneasy. Hope I will get used to it and over it soon.
LOL! I must be weird! I like the smell of the hospital. Whenever I come home my 10 year old brother runs away from me because he can't stand how I smell! hehe. Anyway, I get a weak stomach when it comes to the smell of puke....can't stand that, especially if I have to clean it up....blah! yuck!! :stone
I am the same way, I worry about going into clinicals and getting dizzy, faint or puke but I love medicine and this is what I WANT to do. I am better as I have gotten older and can handle a lot more after having a child, but I feel what the patient would be feeling and it makes me queasy and I get sooooo AFRAID that I am not going to be able to be a nurse when all is said and done. I would LOVE to work in a Level 1 Trauma Unit, but bones, brains and chest tubes really get to me. I am so glad that I am not the only one that feels this way and I hope that I will get over it because I have 3 years of school under my belt and I start my RN program in August and I dont want to change majors now, nothing else would make me as happy as becoming a nurse would.
I started out like this, but about 4 clinical days later, I was fine. What makes me most lightheaded is the smells.. not the body smells, either. It's just the general hospital smell that permeates an entire floor.
This thread reminds me of our blood lab in A&P2...needless to say, I was completely embarrassed that I almost fainted trying to stick myself. It wasn't easy, because I'm not usually soft like that!
I am going to have to stick myself???? I have very bad veins. They roll and are tough. I don't know about that sticking myself stuff.... :uhoh21:
I am going to have to stick myself???? I have very bad veins. They roll and are tough. I don't know about that sticking myself stuff.... :uhoh21:
nev
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u know what...wr really need to know how to combat this situation!
I am thinking about asking my Psychology instructor at college about any suggestions.
What do u guys think?
But please..everyone...keep rolling advices.
Thanx
Nev