How many of y'all......

[Joebird21]

How many of y'all got sick and threw up after your first time working in the ER?? I would like to work in the ER one day and I never have gotten sick at the site of blood or anything, However I worry that if I see a very bad trauma for the first time that I may get sick.

[NewERLPN]

i can totally identify with this. as a nursing student i would frequently gag during dressing changes, cleaning bm, etc. the worst is a lower gi bleed! i usually just grab a little vick's and keep going. luckily i have been able to disguise most of my gagging by having the patient turned the other way. toenails disgust me but abscesses fascinate me. weird huh? you just learn how to deal with it by facing the pt another way or using vicks. after 2 years i have become a little desensitized.

[rn in 3 years]

I am glad this topic is being discussed right now. I am in my first semester of an RN program and I am so nervous about odors. I start my first round of clinicals in two weeks. I imagine it will be embarrassing if I gag in front of a patient or even another healthcare professional. So far I have discovered that I am very reactive to almost any odor - I get a gag reflex that just won' quit. I suppose I can walk around with menthol in my nostrils all day everyday but is there anything I can do to get over the reaction itself ???

Suninmyeyes aka Lisa Marie

Pre-nursing student here and I am VERY worried about the odors. I swear I must have been a police dog in a previous life becasue I can smell things others can not :uhoh21: . Maybe I will just stuff cotton up my nose while I am on the floor

[Balder_LPN, LPN]

Not even an tylenol

You're so tough, what would you need that for anyway??