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I cant makeup my mind

I love to be an RN in future.Am a cna,I just love everything about nursing but my only fear is that i just cant handle dead body.so my question is can I be an RN and not be able to handlethat aspect.Please I need help to decide my future.

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Dead bodies are not really that much of big deal. They don't look as dead as they do on tv.

Don't quite know what field of nursing you can go into where you are guaranteed never to have anyone die on you. In fact, that can't be guaranteed even for non-nurses. Death happens. I think you need to deal with it.

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If you become an RN, maybe you can work in a clinic where your patients tend to enter and exit the place alive and well. From what I know, there's not a whole lot of death and dying that occurs in the clinic or doctors' office setting.

Other settings with lower-than average rates of death and dying include school nursing, occupational health, nurse education, management, and a few others.

perhaps postpartum, or public health could also be considered low risk with the dead body encounters....i guess hospice is out of the question, thats where I saw my first dead body, yikes.

edited- where I am located most public health nurses go on postpartum house calls for high risk families..

Well if you stay a CNA you still have to do postmortem care. And when you do that, you don't have to do it alone. Not sure if this is just policy where I work or everywhere, but it's always done by 2 people at my job.

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