Is there anything that you cannot handle as a Nurse?

[cammy429]

Nursing, for a long time was a career that I tried to avoid because I had a very weak stomach. I feel like I made the right decision in deciding to become an RN because I am a nurturer.

There are still some things within the profession that I cannot look at though. Any procedure that I have to sit through and watch the patient wither in pain makes me slightly light headed. I am transitioning into oncology right now. I watched a bone marrow biopsy being done this week and I had to sit down half way through the procedure.

I just wanted to see what other nurses felt about this and if there was anything within the profession that they felt they could never do or watch.

[Martinette]

I'll come in from a different angle here because I have a strong stomach.

I cannot handle anything sad involving young mums and their babies /children. We have a very young single mother with young babies dying of ovarian ca at the moment on our floor. She has metz. everywhere. Her ex-husband is AWOL and she has no family so the kids are in foster care now and she is going to hospice. Merry freaking christmas. Seeing this kind of stuff makes me want to throw in the towel and sit in a corner and weep.