Passed out my first day of clinical!!!

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Does anyone else have a first day story like this? My first day of clinical, I was standing at the end of a Pt's bed, watching a wound VAC procedure, and I passed out cold. The student next to me caught me so I didn't hit the floor, but they weren't sure if I had had a seizure. So I ended up in the ER, where I heard people whispering, and some actually came and asked me "Are you the nursing student that passed out?" I ended up staying 2 days because they had released me to go home and my husband was driving, on the way home I passed out again. Five minutes after leaving the ER I was back. After 2 days and $10,000 later they told me I had vaso vagal syncope and orthostatic hypotension aggrivated by dehydration and not eating that morning. Moral of the story? Eat breakfast and drink lots of fluid before clinicals.:uhoh3:

My nursing school buddy passed out cold while we were watching a circumcision. I still give her a hard time about that one!:rotfl:

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