TallyJofutureRN

I guess I just need a place to get this off my chest...I am trying to process my day at clinicals...my pt died this morning during my care...I knew that this would be a possibility but for some reason I never thought it would happen so soon....when I went in her room this morning I even had a thought about this pt dying but shrugged it off I hadn't even entered her room but I already had a sense of something wrong...I went in and she was breathing very hard and wheezing loudly...I couldn't get a BP on her and thought it was because she was so swollen...she was prespiring heavily and I just felt something wasn't quite right so I left to get someone else check on her by the time we got back she ws gone....it was surreal...I have never been to a funeral before nor have I ever seen a deceased person before....I am an intro student and wasn't expecting this but I do have some peace tonight about it I did what I knew to do and she was a DNR so I couldn't have done much of anything anyway...

Thank You...I am appreciative of the help...I try and avoid freaking myself out by looking up things on the internet because I always seem to hit a site that ALWAYS has the worst case scenario which intensifies the anxiety...I didn't know that I would have this patient until the morning of clinical (we get assigned our pt 10 minutes before we start care) so no time to educate myself before I had to take care of her anyway I assumed I would get an objective view on here and I did...so thank you for your info!

HI ....I am a first semester intro nursing student and we started clinicals last week on the Oncology floor at our local hospital...I am a little concerned about my contact with a pt today and hoping you all could ease my mind...I had a pt who was in contact isolation because of C-Diff...First of all it seems wierd to me that they would assign me a contact isolation patient being that this is my 2nd week at the hospital....I haven't even taken Micro yet!! I did gown and glove up everytime I went in the room and didn't take anything of mine inside with me I washed my hands all day too..I am concerned though because I have 3 small children under the age of 5.... am not sure how contagious it is...any insight would be helpful...

HI ....I am a first semester intro nursing student and we started clinicals last week on the Oncology floor at our local hospital...I am a little concerned about my contact with a pt today and hoping you all could ease my mind...I had a pt who was in contact isolation because of C-Diff...First of all it seems wierd to me that they would assign me a contact isolation patient being that this is my 2nd week at the hospital....I haven't even taken Micro yet!! I did gown and glove up everytime I went in the room and didn't take anything of mine inside with me I washed my hands all day too..I am concerned though because I have 3 small children under the age of 5.... am not sure how contagious it is...any insight would be helpful...

WOW thank you for your responses!!! I called a friend who graduated from the same program and she experienced the same things also....I am so happy to hear that I am "normal" it helps to know that my reactions emotionally are healthy....I was comparing myself to the reactions of my classmates and I was thinking that there was something wrong with me for being emotional when everyone else seemed to be very much at ease

Hello...I am a first semester RN student of an ADN program..I really need some help here...I am so confused about my feelings right now...We started clinicals today and we are in a nursing home...we had orientation last week and today we were assigned our patient....the nursing home smells so awful and I am so sad when I see these people...the care they receive there is not up to standard and today I was assigned a patient who is 105 years old and was told to auscultate lung sounds....my instructor listened with me and she could hear them but I couldn't..I was so frustrated I only listened to lung sounds twice in lab and that was on my classmates and she says I can tell some of you practiced and some didn't...I didn't have a problem on my classmates but major problems hearing on my patient ....When we went to bathe her we took her pants off and found a washcloth inside of her diaper (I guess for absorbancy???) for some reason that caught me off guard and really threw me ....anyway I came home crying today as I did the last time I went there ...Am I having normal feelings or am I jsut not cut out for this..I don't feel called to work with the elderly at all it is so depressing to me...I know that maybe this should be on the student nursing board but I am hoping for lots of response..I am so hoping that this is part of the process and I am not some lightweight wimp.. thanks for reading this